La Keisha Landrum Pierre

General Partner, Co-Founder

2022 - Current

Emmeline Ventures is a female-founded early stage fund with a team of investors steadfastly committed to investing in and serving as catalysts for new, emerging founders & businesses. With a focus on tech-enabled, female-founded start-ups, Emmeline is expanding what’s possible by empowering founders to make the most of their passion and hustle while delivering necessary progress and innovation for tomorrow.

Co-Founder, Executive Chairwoman

2017

At the Civic Media Lab, we believe democracy is broken and there is a dire need to fix it. At the lab we don’t pretend to know how to fix it but we bet on four things. Moonshot: We need to tinker a lot to find the best solutions, we believe intuitively that the silver bullet to our dysfunctional democratic systems would be simple. Collaboration: We need an inspired, envisioned crowd to make this journey with. This crowd will develop new crafts, and form new communities of practice that will become “citizen institutions” Technology: Without which there couldn’t be any hope. New tools, bring new realities, digital tech is the fire re-discovered. Journalism: the fourth estate of the realm and the calvary! Without which citizens will never be able to demand for accountability and transparency. The lab enjoys the wealth of experience of our founder who built the biggest citizen journalism platform in Africa.

Chairwoman, Former Chief Executive Officer

2015

Sahara Reporters Media Group is among the most influential digital media platforms in West Africa to spark debate, awareness and transparency to the most pressing issues facing Africa and the diaspora. Hailed as the Wikileaks of Nigeria by the New York Times, SRMG is poised to transform transparency in governance across Africa. Sahara Reporters Media Group is the parent company of SaharaTV, SaharaFM and SaharaReporters.com, among other digital assets.

Managing Director, Co-Founder

2021

NLA is an investment fund created to change the face of investing, and change the face of entrepreneurs being invested in.

Board Member, Former Chief Operating Officer

2011 - 2015

The Harbus News is the print and digital source for Harvard Business School related news, features and opinions. • Worked on tight weekly deadlines in fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. • Supervised Lead Designer, Ad Manager, interns & students; oversaw hiring as necessary. • Coordinated w/ Editor-in-Chief and Lead Designer, communicating shifting weekly priorities. • Led weekly meetings on advertising sales, social media strategy, and partnership generation. • Created weekly reports on web traffic, sales, profit and loss, & payroll. • Handled all accounting and taxes, generated financial reports for the board and CEO. The 2013 Unofficial HBS Interview Guide: • Led development of the 2013 Unofficial HBS Interview Guide sold to prospective students. Responsible for gathering & analyzing new data from prospective & admitted students; organizing student contributors; supervising marketing, sales, & distribution of guide; & developing and adhering to a strict timeline. • Built website to market and sell the guide. • Bolstered sale of guide year-over-year 130% in 2013 The Harbus Online: • Spearheaded initiative to improve Search Engine Optimization of The Harbus’ websites. Led collaboration w/ outside MBA news outlets & forums to improve results. • Assessed weekly web analytics, use insights as guide for upcoming Harbus editions. • Researched web users behavior, identified patterns, and proposed strategies for digital team to implement

Senior Research Associate

2012 - 2013

• Managed three person research team tasked with investigating the origins of the Yale Tuition Postponement Program under Dr. Greg Harris • Analysis of economic implications of income-contingent loan programs on college students • Prepared bi-monthly team agenda, PowerPoint presentations and project management reports • Researched expert economists and conducted in-person and phone interviews

Research Associate

2012 - 2013

• Edited referee report submissions by Dr. Pomeranz to various economic publications • Conducted research and published a report on tax-increment financing between government and business owners to determine which states (if any) have such subsidies/agreements and what legislation has been passed related to this matter

Research Associate, Youth and Media Project

2010 - 2011

Research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society focusing on the Youth and Media project under Urs Gasser, John Palfrey and Sandra Cortesi. • Wrote literature about information quality and youth privacy under Urs Gasser and John Palfrey • Performed evaluation and analysis of research literature on youth policy and information quality • Managed internal and external communications (via the listserv, blog, Twitter and podcasts)

Summer Research Associate

2010 - 2010

Research Associate

2009 - 2010