Meet Amy Blackman, MBA - Head of Growth at InKind Captial and Former VP at Contend Immersive, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Amy was a U.S. State Department Cultural Ambassador under the Bush and Obama administrations, sent to 18 countries to execute cultural exchange public diplomacy missions. She received a Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) from Georgetown University, and an MA in Anthropology and Education from Columbia University.

With 18 years of C-level leadership, she is now VP at Contend Immersive, working with rogue, vanguard and brilliant strategists, designers, artists, branders who worked on projects such as, television show, "Stranger Things".

Her agency team unleashes data hacked creative and radical technology through Inverted Reality,removing the lines between human, digital, physical and analog to create mind-bending multi-sensory immersive experiences.

 For fun, Amy does international channel swimming expeditions. If you ask Amy what her tag line is, she would say, “As I cultivate my own nature, all else follows”.