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Dr. Nsenga K. Burton is what it looks like when expertise, entrepreneurship, and purpose operate at the same time in the same person. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Burton Wire. A news publication covering the global Black diaspora that now reaches over 20 million readers weekly across more than 200 print outlets and 2 million people online daily. The idea started with a research study, a business plan, and $5,000 in seed funding won at an NABJ competition. That foundation now supports one of the most widely distributed Black-owned media platforms in the country. Her academic credentials span four universities including Northwestern, NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California. Over a career of more than two decades she has chaired communication and media departments at Johnson C. Smith University, Goucher College, and Clark Atlanta University, and served as co-director of Film and Media Management at Emory University. She is currently Southern Regional Director of the Howard University and PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship at Clark Atlanta University. There she leads efforts to build and strengthen entrepreneurship ecosystems across HBCU campuses in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and the Virgin Islands. Her production credits include the films Shaft and Little, the Hollywood documentary Brainwashed, and BBC productions covering culture and travel across the American South. Her editorial credits include The Root, CNN, the New York Times, HuffPost, The Grio, and NNPA/Black Press USA Newswire, where her content reaches some of the largest Black readership audiences in the country. She is a 2023 National Coalition of 100 Black Women Unsung Heroine Award recipient, a 2013 NABJ Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner, and a Scripps-Howard Journalism Fellow. The through line across every role is the same: expanding access, representation, and economic power for Black communities through media and entrepreneurship. #BlackExcellence #BlackMediaMatters #HBCUs #BlackEntrepreneurship #BlackJournalism #Createensemble