About The CEO
an empathic marketing expert in building community






J⚡️ is the Founder & CEO of CEREMONY, an agency in community marketing supporting conscious companies, collectives and creators. With our approach, community marketing creates sustainable growth in business revenue and social impact.

J is most widely known from his success as the former Founder & CEO of Liberate, a Black meditation app.

Here is some of his achievements from Liberate:

coded initial MVP and grew app to impact over 100,000 people globally

partnered with meditation teachers such as Larry Ward, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Lama Rod Owens, Vimalasara, Ruth King, Sebene Selassie (and many more) to provide culturally relevant guided meditations for the Liberate community

hired and managed a team of 14 - including COO and Chief of Staff

prev. raised over $400k from angel investors and vc firms - Debut Capital, Unseen Capital, Camelback Ventures as well as Kataly Foundation

grew business to generate over $70K monthly through B2C subscriptions and B2B clients such as Snapchat & NHS

written about in publications such as CNN, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, Blavity, Google & Apple.