Celebrating Black History Month: Wen-Kuni Ceant
This Black History Month, NYTA recognizes and celebrates the many incredible black men, women and non-binary individuals who have graced our stage at NY Tech Meetups to present and demo transformative tech; shared subject matter expertise during Forum events to provide perspective and participated in Founder Spotlights to tell their story and inspire other founders as they pursue their own journey of building a business. Next, we recognize and celebrate Wen-Kuni Ceant, Co-Founder & CEO, Politicking, a sociopolitical mobile application that demystifies the voting and political process.
About Wen-Kuni Ceant
Wen-kuni is a notable thought leader and innovator as she serves as a founder, cultural curator and coach.
Wen-kuni Ceant is the CEO and Co-Founder of Politicking — a sociopolitical mobile application that demystifies the voting and political process. Wen-kuni also currently serves as a Project Manager Consultant for Innovation Horizons. She is a Fulbright Scholar and through the fellowship she studied health infrastructure in Senegal. Wen-kuni currently serves as a Fulbright alumni ambassador. She received her Masters in Public Health in Health Management and Policy in 2016 from Drexel University. Before Drexel, she attended Howard University, in Washington, D.C. where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors with a Bachelors of Science in Biology.
Wen-kuni posses over seven years of project management experience and is able to delegate within cross functional teams. She is an expert in enacting organizational strategy to deliver strategic outcomes. Her leadership style is both strategic and innovative. Wen-kuni holds several core competencies as a policy professional which include stakeholder engagement and strategic operational planning.
Please feel free to reach out to Wen-kuni at wen-kuni@politickingapp.com as she welcomes opportunities to discuss speaking and programming opportunities.
About Politicking
Politicking is a mobile application dedicated to improving & galvanizing the millennial vote by providing information about micro and macro politics. With Millennials representing the second largest generation of the county’s electorate, but only turning out at a rate of 31%, Politicking comes in by providing them with information that is relevant to them through their mobile devices on candidate positions and local issues that are up for referendum. Thus, creating transparency between candidate and constituent by demystifying the way users have been traditionally informed about politics.
Several ways you can recognize and help Wen-Kuni and her team:
- Visit their website and learn about Politicking
- Download their App on the App Store or Google Play
- Refer Politicking to family and friends
- Watch and listen to Wen-Kuni’s story on NYTA’s YouTube Channel
