Ida Byrd-Hill

Ida Byrd-Hill, an urban economist and futurist, is the President of Uplift, Inc. — a nonprofit idea incubator that creates ideas to reinvent urban cities. She founded and is expanding the Automation Workz Institute — a game-based, post-secondary tech school that won the Cisco Networking Academy Above & Beyond Award 2019. Ida is the author of 8 books, including Invisible Talent Market — a Diversity & Inclusion guide based on Black economics history. She holds a BA in Economics, from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor; and an MBA from Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University.