{"id":15382,"date":"2019-01-28T08:16:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.austinyc.org\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:31:50","slug":"announcing-our-2019-changemaker-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinyc.org\/announcing-our-2019-changemaker-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our 2019 ChangeMaker Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Celebrate Our ChangeMakers<\/h2>\n

It is a pleasure and honor to announce Lewis Conway, Jr., Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, and Karen Ranus<\/b>\u00a0as the recipients of the 2019 Austin Young Chamber ChangeMaker Awards, to be presented at the LEAD Summit Luncheon<\/a> on Friday, February 15 at the AT&T Executive Conference Center.<\/p>\n

The ChangeMaker Award\u00a0pays tribute to those who are doing extraordinary things to make our community a better place. ChangeMakers are thought-leaders and do-ers who create innovative solutions to community or industry challenges. They identify the need for change, and through their inspiring efforts, proactively and successfully make that change happen.[\/vc_column_text]

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Meet Our Winners<\/h1>\n

Click on their name to learn more!<\/p>\n

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Founder<\/em> | Equally Yoked Marketing<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Lewis Conway Jr., is a serial entrepreneur, with almost two decades of experience in the broadcast and music industry, real-life, in-the-trenches experience as a sought after speaker and lecturer, author of three books, mentor and criminal justice organizer, his strategic vision is radically different.<\/p>\n

Lewis has built a cachet of servant-leadership through several campaigns in municipal and state political theaters. On July 23, 2018, Conway filed to become the first formerly incarcerated person in Texas to have their name on an electoral ballot. On November 6, 2018, he garnered 11% of vote, ultimately losing his first bid for political office.<\/p>\n

Prior to his political, leadership and entrepreneurial efforts, Lewis Conway Jr. spent 2,095 days in Texas prisons and 4,012 days on parole for Voluntary Manslaughter.[\/vc_column_text]

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