Cameroon American Council

04/10/2026

The Cameroon American Council is proud to co-host the Cincinnati Community-Led Data Center Virtual Town Hall next week on Thursday, April 16, 2026, from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET.

Data centers are a rapidly emerging issue in Cincinnati and across Ohio—from energy demand and land use to environmental justice, AI ethics and digital equity.

Through our ongoing press, policy, pipeline, portfolio and partnerships, the Cameroon American Council has helped elevate AI and data center issues alongside our friends on Capitol Hill, including Greg Landsman—who represents Cincinnati in Congress.

Congressman Greg Landsman’s legislative efforts include:

• Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act (H.R. 6529) — addressing rising energy costs for families tied to data center demand
• No Harm Data Centers Act (H.R. 8033) — focused on protecting communities from harmful data center impacts
• National coverage highlighting his leadership, including efforts to ensure AI data centers contribute fairly to consumer energy costs and respond to growing community-led resistance to unchecked development

As data center expansion accelerates, these efforts underscore the urgent need for equitable, community-centered policy solutions—especially for Black communities and other historically underserved populations.

Q&A will follow a panel discussion featuring:

→ Helen Todd (Moderator) — Co-Founder, CincyAI for Humans
→ Tashia Roberson-Wing — Senior Legislative Assistant, Office of Congressman Greg Landsman (D-OH)
→ David Reeves — Chief of Staff, Office of Councilmember Meeka Owens
→ Hanna Khoury — Infrastructure & Security Division, City of Cincinnati
→ Aasim Shabazz — Co-Founder & President, Twin Cities Innovation Alliance; Architect of Data 4 Public Good
→ Sylvie Bello — National Press, Policy & Portfolio Strategist; Founder, Cameroon American Council

As part of its national strategy, the Cameroon American Council is bridging federal, state, and local leadership to ensure Black communities are not only represented—but centered—in the future of AI infrastructure policy.

RSVP for free today via CincyAI for Humans:
https://app.heartbeat.chat/cincyai/eve

03/14/2026

The Cameroon American Council is at in Austin today.
What if the $3 trillion Women’s Health movement is repeating the same anti-Blackness that shaped “Votes for Women”?

Earlier this year at the JPMorgan Healthcare Investors Conference, conversations centered around the $3 trillion opportunity in Women’s Health. That moment made us reflect on history.

From the harbor waters of Baltimore — where our founder Sylvie Bello now sails with the Universal Sailing Club — we often think about Anna Murray Douglass, the Liberator’s Liberator.

In 1838, Anna Murray Douglass used her courage and savings to help liberate Frederick Douglass from slavery, financing his escape from Baltimore and setting in motion one of the most consequential freedom journeys in American history.

A decade later, she again supported him financially so he could travel to Seneca Falls, New York, where he became the only Black person present at the inaugural 1848 convention on “Votes for Women.”

Yet as the suffrage movement grew — during the cruel slavery era — the exclusion of Black women was already taking shape.

The movement would eventually win the 19th Amendment in 1920, yet Black women were still locked out of voting for another 45 years under the violent Jim Crow system of racial segregation.

From the conception of the movement at Seneca Falls, to the passage of the 19th Amendment, to the actual exercise of voting rights, Black women were pushed to the margins at every stage.

Today we hear about a $3 trillion opportunity in Women’s Health innovation and investment.

Yet Black women — who experience some of the worst health outcomes — remain largely excluded from the 7Cs of power:
capital, C-suites, corporate boards, cap tables, contracts, conferences, and coverage shaping the future of health innovation.

Join the conversation.

Event
The Engagement Ecosystem: Where Entertainment, Commerce, Health and Education Collide

Organizer
SipXSW

Fireside chat led by
Ian Harrison — Head Innovation Dude, SNEAKAR

Featuring

Jason Anderson-Ebener — President, College of Hip Hop Knowledge
Becca Ruiz — Founder, Impactasnap
Ed Rigg — Founder, RecDek
Sylvie Bello — Cameroon American Council

02/27/2026

📣 Let's close out Black History Month the RIGHT way.

Cameroon American Council is thrilled to join our friemds at The Marcus Garvey Institute for Human Development and Udu Technologies Inc. THIS SATURDAY, February 28 for a powerful virtual briefing: Future of AI Innovation: HBCU AI Supercomputer — and it's completely FREE.

The vision? Build the first sovereign AI supercomputing network at America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities — so that HBCUs don't just use AI, they OWN it.

This comes on the heels of Morehouse College being selected to house Horizon, a supercomputer at the center of the NSF's $457 million research initiative — the first of its kind at an HBCU. 🙌

🎙️ Hear from: Dr. Julius W. Garvey | Alex Tsado | Dr. Muhsinah L. Morris | Dr. Godfrey Madigu | Evan Poncelet | Pierre Akinroluyo | Sylvie Bello

💻 FREE. Virtual. No excuses. Join from anywhere. ⚠️ Only 50 spots available — we're keeping this intimate and intentional. Once they're gone, they're gone.

🗓️ Saturday, February 28 🕛 12PM–1PM ET | 11AM–12PM CT | 9AM–10AM PT 🔗 Secure your spot NOW: https://luma.com/r19w7f8b

Tag someone who needs to close out Black History Month in this room. ⬇️

02/19/2026

In Cameroon, when a legend dies, we say, “An Iroko Tree has fallen.”

RIP Comrade Jackson, it took days to fully find words of to capture the decades learning you poured into me. And the hundreds of times I spent seeking guidance from you and my good colleagues at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit and Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

Well, today, I finally join million of people in the U.S. and globally to (publicly) honor the titan, Jesse Jackson — not only as a preacher and protester, but as an architect of economic power.

Rev. Dr. Jesse Jackson understood what many still resist:
Protest without policy is noise.
Policy without press is invisible.
Press without pipelines is performative. Pipelines without portfolio is power deferred.

Protest is pressure.
Policy is structure.
Press is amplification.
Pipelines are access.
Portfolio is power.

He didn’t just march.
He engineered economic leverage.

He did not merely condemn racist apartheid in South Africa— he helped mobilize economic divestment in the United States against the racist regime in South Africa.

He pushed universities, pension funds, faith institutions, and corporations to withdraw capital from injustice.

He understood that capital is leverage — and that moral clarity without financial consequence rarely moves systems.

He challenged corporations that profited from Black consumers while excluding Black leadership.

Through Operation PUSH and the Rainbow Coalition, he demanded supplier diversity, executive pipelines, and board representation long before DEI became corporate language.

He forced access to C-suites and boardrooms — not as charity, but as accountability.

He moved communities, too. He called Black America into global solidarity — aligning domestic civil rights with foreign policy toward Africa and the diaspora.

He pushed for humane immigration policies for African and Black migrants when their stories were sidelined in Congress and in the media. He insisted that justice has no borders.

His presidential campaigns widened the lane that Barack Obama would later run in — transforming possibility into precedent.

We carry Rev Jaskson's vision:

By any means necessary.

02/11/2026

What does Black allyship look like? Thank you

Too often these conversations happen outside of fiduciary spaces, rather than within investment committees, pension conferences, and board rooms where real leverage over capital allocation exists.

What often goes unspoken is that while 65% of public employees are people of color, roughly 80% of pension assets are managed by firms owned by white men. That disparity rarely surfaces where asset allocation and manager selection decisions are made.

And during this 100th Black History Month — at a time when more than 300,000 Black women have recently lost their jobs — these governance questions feel even more urgent. Black women are disproportionately represented in public sector and municipal roles. When fiscal contraction hits, the very communities whose labor built these pension systems absorb the shock first.

We need to be in these spaces. Who are some of allies in finance, family office and funder circles?

Thank you for creating a space for diverse voices.

11/26/2025

Investors. Innovators. Immigrants.
CAC is on the road this December ✈️✨

📍 Dec 3 — NYC

Honored to return to NYC at the invitation of Patricia Silverstein, for the inaugural Healthcare, Biotech, Life Sciences & AI Conference at World Trade Center 7 — hosted by the Silverstein Dream Foundation & The Beryl Consulting Group.

This curated, one-day summit brings together:
• 200+ senior executives, investors & innovators
• 40+ global speakers
• 8 high-impact panels

Spotlighting the future of healthcare: AI, personalized medicine, predictive analytics, cybersecurity, and patient-centered innovation — all essential as health equity gaps continue to affect Black, immigrant & African diaspora communities.

🔗 Info: https://lnkd.in/dr7uMXU9
🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/euXSqYjb

📍 Dec 1–11 — Miami (Art Basel Week)

Tracking major Investor, UHNW & Family Office convenings during Art Basel:
• DC Finance – Dec 1–2
• Family Office Forum @ Sagamore – Dec 3
• FOX Brunch + Summit – Dec 4
• ALTSMIA – Dec 8–10
• Family Office Super Summit – Dec 9–11

What We'rw Covering

• Black family offices & global diaspora capital
• African billionaires & emerging wealth leaders
• VC/PE pipelines for Black fund managers
• Funding for HBCU innovation & design justice
• Black literary, performing & visual arts projects

Why It Matters

CAC is scaling from workforce development pipelines to governance pipelines — preparing our community for paid roles on:
• Corporate boards
• Investment committees
• Advisory boards (AI, healthcare, culture, philanthropy)

Policy ➡️ Portfolio.

If you’ll be in NYC or Miami, let’s connect.



(Photo- Throwback to Washingtonian's 50th anniversary)

07/11/2025

Tonight- Join Sylvie Bello of Cameroon American Council on Immigration Relief in Trump's America.

03/24/2025

Congrats to on 159 years! What a beautiful gala at in

We very much enjoyed meeting everyone, especially the , & donors who support .

We enjoyed the Christie's auction and were grateful for funds raised for scholarships for horology classes at HSNY and at other schools.

SWIPE to check out our piece on what role and can do in this moment!

Cheers to memories, and yes, a was had!

01/21/2025

Happy MLK Day!

11/28/2024

09/30/2024

Thanks to and ASHA Strategies for the flyer!

Please register and join us today, Monday September 30th, 2024, via Zoom at 3.45PM ET.

https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_gP5YoSeAS6qjBKmkuAzRLg

*September as National African Immigrant Heritage Month.*

*White House Briefing: Exploring Opportunities in White House Media Relations For African Immigrants.*

Date: Monday, Sep 30, 2024 03:45 PM ET

As National African Immigrant Heritage Month comes to a close, please join a one hour discussion with:

*Panelists:*
**Yemisi Egbewole** (Chief of Staff, White House Press Office),

**Rodericka Applewhaite** (Director of African American Media at White House), and

**Sylvie Qwasinwi Ngassa Bello**, Moderator, (Founder of Cameroon American Council's African Immigrant Media Network).

*Discussion Points:*

1. *Getting Started*: Internships, jobs, and networking in White House media relations.

2. *White House Media Roles*: Press Secretary, Communications Team, and Day in Life Scenarios.

3. *Access and Credentials*: Requirements, process, and types of media credentials for individuals and organizations.

4. *Diversity and Impact*: Representation, storytelling, and policy messaging affecting African immigrants.

5. *Career Growth*: Professional development, industry organizations, and expert advice.

This event is free and open to the public.

Registration is required:
https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_gP5YoSeAS6qjBKmkuAzRLg

For questions: [email protected]

Thank you!

09/02/2024

Happy National African Immigrant Heritage Month