Two years ago, Ronnie Kwesi Coleman founded Meaningful Gigs after struggling to connect with top technologists and designers. The inspiration came from Coleman’s desire to connect specifically black product designers and developers around the world with better job opportunities.
Use your platform to inspire others with Meaningful Gigs co-founder and CEO Ronnie Coleman
To do this, he and his team created a platform with a network of black designers who have been vetted by experts. Meaningful Gigs works with employers and will hand-pick design teams from their network. The startup is on a mission to use data to help people reach their full potential.
“The reason for this mission is that it comes from my own personal story as someone who doesn’t come from a traditional background. I’ve always been fascinated by what drives someone to reach their full potential,” Coleman told Lifewire in a phone interview.
Coleman is Ukrainian, Ghanaian, and Jewish. He was born in Ukraine, then his family moved to England for a while. When he was about 10, they moved to Ghana, and Coleman eventually came to the United States when he was 19. He moved here to attend college, but after dropping out due to some tragedies in his family, he began looking at careers in technology.
