This week on the pod, we welcome Imagine MKE’s Antoine Carter. Antoine is the Director of Neighborhood Partnerships and was the original employee of Imagine MKE.

First, in the intro, David and Lindsay lament a lack of Gen Z references to draw from with Mac away on vacation. They discuss their own transformative professional development opportunities, including Lindsay’s entrepreneurship award for a music programming organization that she founded and led, and David’s experience as an NGen fellow within American Express’s nonprofit leadership academy. Antoine joins the conversation around 16:15, and reflects on his journey achieving his longtime goal of being voted one of the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in the 2022 class.

In the conversation, Antoine details the experience of being part of the 2022 cohort, and highlights his ethos of “doing things fly”—for example, the balance of being bold enough to love pineapple on pizza, or to rock a turquoise suit at the 40 Under 40 awards ceremony, while still always leading with mission first. The team discuss Antoine’s strength of vulnerability in his leadership, and the comfort he feels with being an arbiter of productive discomfort. Antoine reflects his pride in seeing collaborators in community work thriving and growing alongside him over the years.  

Follow Antoine Carter’s work @ImagineMKE and sign up for his work group at www.ImagineMKE.org

407 Ephemera

The Erdman Prize for Entrepreneurship

Water Street Music

The NGen Fellows Program

The 2012 NGen Project to democratize Leadership Development

Celebration MURAL

Antoine Carter: 40 Under 40

Antoine's 40 under 40 Award Presentation

IMKE Congrats and Celebration Video