(BALTIMORE – April 30, 2023) – Tune in tomorrow for the Dean himself, Dr. Tyrone Taborn on our Emmy-nominated Doni Glover Show!
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Who is Dr. Taborn?
Tyrone D. Taborn is the publisher, chairman, and CEO of Career Communications Group. CCG is a minority-owned media services company, which connects top technology talent to employers that have the potential to fulfill their career goals. Over more than a quarter of a century, CCG has built strong, lasting partnerships with America’s top companies, government agencies, and educational institutions through its magazines, the Internet, and conferences that promote the achievements of minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Taborn is the founder of the Foundation for Educational Development, which aims to raise awareness of technology literacy in minority communities across America. The foundation’s programs-Black Family Technology Awareness Week, La Familia Technology Awareness Week, and The Native American Family Technology Journey-aim to bring families into the digital age through computer literacy workshops.
Taborn is a regular contributor to technology columns that appear in major print media. He was a contributing author to “Learning Race and Ethnicity, Youth and Digital Media,” funded by the MacArthur Foundation and published by MIT Press. He also wrote, “Closing The Racial Digital Divide,” one of ten essays that plot a course for African Americans in “The Covenant With Black America” (Third World Press) the 2006 New York Times bestseller compiled by PBS-TV’s Tavis Smiley. Taborn has appeared on several prime-time television shows.
His current board affiliations include Women Legislators of Maryland Foundation, Inc., Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning, Maryland Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE), and the Granville Academy. He is also a member of The National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Maryland Governor, Martin O’Malley, and the state’s Legislative Black Caucus honored Taborn with a 2008 Living History Award in Engineering, Science, and Innovation. Taborn was recognized for outstanding contributions to his field and the State of Maryland. He was one of three individuals to receive the award.
Historymakers.com has recognized Taborn as an influential, historical figure who has had significant accomplishments that impact the African American community. In 2003, he received the Hispanic Engineer of the Year Chairman’s Award from HENACC, and in 2005, he received the Baltimore Marketing Association’s Business Person of the Year Award.
His other accolades include a Mercedes Benz Visionary Award and an Internet and Technology Leaders Award from Sprint and MOBE IT. Editors of blackmoney.com and SoulofTechnology.net, who sponsor the Most Important African Americans in Technology Awards, named him one of the “50 Most Important Blacks in Technology.” And Congressman Major R. Owens (D-NY) presented Taborn with a Congressional Black Caucus Honor as a Pioneer in Publishing.
With roots in both the Latino and black communities, Taborn, who grew up in Los Angeles, California, attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. At Cornell, Taborn majored in government. Also, while at Cornell, he held membership in the Senior Honor Society “Quill and Dagger” and was one of 32 academic scholars honored with membership in the prestigious Telluride Association. He served as the first LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) Congressional Intern in the office of the late Congressman Julian C. Dixon in 1978.
Taborn holds honorary degrees from Morgan State University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and a Bachelor of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University.