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In this Pre-Thanksgiving Super episode, I get to interview three dynamic leaders, highlighting the outstanding work they are doing in the community: Charles DeBow, III, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Moses West, CEO/Founder of AWG Contracting and the Moses West Foundation, and Shael Norris, Founding Executive Director of SafeBAE. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erik-fleming1/support
Founder and CEO
Moses is a retired Army officer. He is currently the CEO and Founder of AWG Contracting, and his Non-profit 501c3 The Moses West Foundation. He works closely with the U.S. Military, universities, and municipalities to mitigate the prolonged effects of drought, water contamination issues and food shortages by advancing the technology of Atmospheric Water Generators. He has worked endlessly over the past 10 years to manufacture the most energy efficient high-volume water producing Atmospheric Water Generator units available for Military use, disaster recovery, and normal everyday usage for a myriad of other solutions where water has become difficult to obtain. He has proven that the Atmosphere is an endless, inexhaustible source of pure water that is limitless in its ability to provide for a growing global population. This is necessary source of water for many critical areas of society today and well into the future. He has developed mass production water facilities as well as small units for emergency use. He has made it his mission to prove that the atmosphere is a limitless source of water that will help provide for society well into the future. He has been the first to successfully the largest AWG unit for the first in any major water crisis event. Moses deployed the technology in Puerto Rico on the Island of Vieques to supply all of the island with potable water, He has deployed one AWG unit to Flint Michigan and Jackson Mississippi. These missions are recorded as the first time that any large Atmospheric Water Generator has been deployed in recovery efforts from a n… Read More
CEO
Mr. Charles H. DeBow, III is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The National Black Chamber of Commerce® (NBCC). Over the past 20 years he has gained extensive experience working in every department of the NBCC. Joining the team in November of 1999 as the liaison to the NBCC Global Federation of Chambers in North/Central/South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. This began the NBCC’s evolution as a global advocate on behalf of Black businesses. The National Black Chamber of Commerce® is dedicated to economically empowering, sustaining African American communities through entrepreneurship, capitalistic activity within the United States, and via interaction with the Black Diaspora.
Mr. DeBow has focused work on the unconventional challenges confronting African American small businesses, advocacy, and opportunities, along with the operational challenges of non-profit organizations.
Charles H. DeBow, III is the older brother of NBCC CO-Founder Kay DeBow Alford, and brother-in-law of CO-Founder Harry C. Alford. Charles H. DeBow is a name in military history. As the grandson of Charles DeBow, a Buffalo Soldier, and the son of Charles H. DeBow, Jr, a graduate of the first training class of 1942, from the Tuskegee Army Airfield, certifying him as an original Tuskegee Airman. Mr. DeBow is a graduate of Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business. He has spent over 13 years in various capacities with CBS Records and 10 years as a marketing consultant developing marketing campaigns for clients such as Michael Jackson, Prince, Janet Jackson, Sade, Earth, Wi…
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Executive Director
Shael Norris is the Founding Executive Director of SafeBAE, the only US national survivor-founded, youth-led organization working to prevent sexual violence among teens. She has dedicated her career to ending sexual violence and empowering youth activism. As a young activist, she was a founding staffer of V-Day, overseeing all benefit productions of "The Vagina Monologues"(1999-2016) and the creation of the "Campus Accountability Project" calling for improved prevention/response on college campuses. It was this higher education prevention work, that led her to co-creating SafeBAE (2015), in partnership with Daisy and Charlie Coleman, Ella Fairon, and Jada Smith. Her work will be published in the 2024 Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.
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