A Portland business executive is working to create networks for hundreds of college students of color and help them break into the corporate world.
Over the last four years, Emerging Leaders, the nonprofit Ryan Buchanan helped found, has placed 322 students in paid internships in the Portland area.
His main company is a digital marketing agency called Thesis. He has 100 employees, contracts with some of the biggest companies in Oregon and just moved the company to a huge new office space in Portland.
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