Through My Lens: Making Our Vision A Reality Through Art & Social Media

By: David Lee, New York City Regional President

It was a usual day at the office on Broadway and 31st when I was calling company after company to seek sponsorship for one of the events which my employer at the time was hosting.  I came across one particular organization which I reached out that was interested in collaborating with my company.  We scheduled a meeting at the New York Metropolitan Museum for a quick information session and that is when I met Jamie Borromeo who told me the great idea which she was developing in recently which we all know today as GenerationDrive, I immediately love the idea and that wanted to be part of the organization’s vision to help young entrepreneurs.  The first meeting initiated into a series of emails and phone calls which led to me deciding if I wanted to be GenerationDrive’s NYC Chapter President.

I agreed to being part of GenerationDrive because I knew the vision which Jamie had was great and the potential of how big this vision could be with the help of the right people it will impact a lot of people who need it and make the world a better place.   Given that GenerationDrive is an national organization, they needed someone to be running the NYC region for conferences and calling companies to participate in our events so I wanted to be that person that they could count on.

When I found out that we were having this board retreat and meeting with all the members of GenerationDrive, I was surprised and excited.  There was a photo shoot for our website and marketing material so I was psyched about that. I wanted to meet with the group personally since the only contact I had with them was through emails and phone conferences.

During our time in San Francisco we finished a lot of the planning for GenerationDrive and still had time to do fun stuff which we got the chance to know each other better.  We are the generation of entrepreneurs who know when to work hard and play hard.  We like express that being an entrepreneur doesn’t mean that you constantly have to be business and corporate like but that you can still have fun while making money and doing what you love.

After the weekend of working in the hotel room with post-it board paper all over the walls and endless powerpoint slides and getting to know one another we were finalizing our trip with the GenerationDrive photoshoot which we were lucky enough to get together an awesome group of people who collaborated together to get our vision on a artistic viewpoint.   I wanted to thank our photographer who was able to shoot several scenes and multiple models all within a day.  The models were great for hanging there with us throughout the day.  The makeup artist, wardrobe stylist, and hair stylist were all wonderful people who understood what it took to make our vision happen and they were on board for this GenerationDrive project.  I am grateful to be part of this group.

Our Photographer, Kevin Hofer, posing the beautiful models

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