Joint Center Joins MMTC’s Annual Access to Capital and Telecom Policy Conference

Today, Joint Center President Spencer Overton spoke at this year’s Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council’s Financing America’s Future conference on the panel Infrastructure, Supplier Diversity, and the Jobs of the Future – The Economic Impact of Broadband Infrastructure Investment Under the Trump Administration. Spencer talked about investments in broadband infrastructure in rural communities of color, new economy workforce development, building a pool of minority contractors to install 5G infrastructure, and ensuring bloc grants allocated to states actually reach communities of color.