3. Maurice Cherry: Atlanta-based digital creator, educator, and founder of the award-winning podcast, Revision Path
No doubt, the design industry (and much of this article, in fact!) owes a great deal to Maurice Cherry’s efforts championing black designers. He’s the pioneering creator of the Black Weblog Awards, the web’s longest-running event celebrating black bloggers, video bloggers, and podcasters. He’s also the creator of the award-winning podcast Revision Path, which showcases “some of the best Black graphic designers, web designers, and web developers from all over the world.”
Other projects include 28 Days of the Web and The Year of Tea, a short daily podcast in which Cherry sampled and reviewed a new tea each day of 2015. Most recently, he was selected as one of this year's “People to Watch” by the Graphic Design USA magazine, a publication for creative professionals since 1963.