C.T.E Foundation

C.T.E Foundation is a non-profit organization that helps athletes, veterans, and others impacted by CTE and concussions by encouraging safer athletes and smarter sports through innovation and education, and by preventing CTE through research and prevention.

The foundation’s goal is to raise awareness of the neural disease through a campaign. The campaign will be advertised through posters, billboards, and social media. The ideal target audience is athletes, teens, parents, and coaches.

Finalist Info

Advisor

John McVicker
Focus

Graphic Design
Tags

Spring 2025

Keni Thacker

Founder 100 Roses from Concrete

There are five types of thinkers: creative thinkers, analytical thinkers, intuitive thinkers, logical thinkers, and visionary thinkers. Keni is a pioneer of change and is committed to expanding diversity efforts, and the impact he has made on future leaders does not go unnoticed. A true exemplar of leadership, Keni an award-winning influencer and diversity advocate devoted to outreach programs and mentorship. On February 8th, 2017, he launched the Young Commodores program at J. Walter Thompson (now Wunderman Thompson), a diversity initiative that provides college and high school advertising students with an opportunity to apply what they are learning in the classroom to real-life advertising and business. Also, in 2017, he was named as one of the 4A’s 100 People That Make Advertising Great. NV Magazine featured him as one of their Champions of Inclusion while also receiving a citation from the City of New York/Borough of Brooklyn for a long record of diversity, inclusion, and mentoring efforts in advertising in 2019.

He is also the founder of 100 Roses From Concrete, a network for men of color in advertising, marketing media, and public relations. Through the Roses, he recently created the G.R.O.W.T.H. Initiative that is a virtual agency program for multicultural college students who may have lost their internships due to the coronavirus pandemic.