MEDIA & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
A thoughtful speaker with a singular voice, Meka brings fresh, inspiring, and honest perspectives on the topics of tech, diversity, leadership, erasing the digital divide, social change, and lifting people out of poverty through education and opportunity.
“We must change the face of tech: We cannot white and Asian male our way to prosperity.”
CodeCrew Grizzly Scholars Bally Sports
Given February 2023 at FedExForum, Memphis, TN
“I want to make coding and computer science as popular as basketball and hip-hop.”
Meka’s Love Letter to Memphis
February 2023
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Commencement Ceremony - May 2022
“We’ve seen our schools fumble for more than a generation on providing quality education, especially in tech. No Child Left Behind was really ‘tech education left behind.’”
State of CodeCrew 2024
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed
March 2021
San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed
April 2022
The Hanselminutes Podcast with Scott Hanselman
November 2020
"Let's get algorithms on the menus of kids, before kids are on the menus of algorithms."
TECH TALK Thursdays
April 2022 at LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, TN
How Memphis is Uniquely Poised to Transform the Tech Industry TEDxYouth@WSHS
2018 at White Station High School, Memphis, TN
“Lift as you climb.”
2017 with the Tennessee Entertainment Commission
What Type of Andover Graduate Will You Be?
Given April 2018 at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
BusinessofPassion.co - Episode 2 - 2017
The Memphis Youth Coding Movement
November 2016, Ignite Memphis, Memphis, TN