The Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment is proud to welcome Natalie Madeira Cofield as Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) and Chief Creative Economy Officer. The newly created EIR role is responsible for managing the Mayor Muriel Bowser presents 202Creates produces entrepreneurship programming, provides technical assistance, masterclasses and seminars, and produces, bi-annually, a cohort-modeled business-intensive residency program designed to aid creatives in scaling their endeavors.
Natalie Madeira Cofield is a millennial serial entrepreneur, diversity champion, and award-winning executive. Cofield began her career working three jobs in high school, attended college at age 16, started her first company at 26, and later went on to become a three-time CEO by age 30. She is a 2014 Aspen Ideas Fellow, a 2016 Ashoka Changemaker Fellow, a 2017 Google NextGen Leader, a 2018 Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow, and a 2018-2020 member of the AARP Innovation Council. She is also the Founder & CEO of Walker's Legacy.
Natalie was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Business by Entrepreneur Magazine, a Most Inspiring Leader of our Generation by Rainbow PUSH and the Women Business Leader of the Year by the Washington DC Chamber of Commerce. As an advocate, Cofield has served as the youngest person to testify before the US Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship. She was also the youngest Chamber President for a Top 15 City in the nation when she was appointed to the position of President & CEO of the Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce, a post she held for roughly five years.
Cofield is an honors graduate of Howard University, where she was in the inaugural class of the Bill Gates Millennium Scholars Program and the Baruch School of Public Affairs where she was a National Urban Fellow. Cofield has spoken for global technology companies, including IBM, Dell, Applied Materials, Google, and Facebook among others.
In her role Cofield will focus on producing programming to support and highlight the District’s bourgeoning creative economy.
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About Mayor Muriel Bowser Presents 202Creates
An initiative of the DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment, led by Director Angie Gates, 202Creates is an entrepreneurship-focused initiative designed to celebrate, support, promote, educate, and provide access to the District's creative entrepreneurs. 202Creates produces entrepreneurship programming, provides technical assistance, masterclasses and seminars, and produces, bi-annually, a cohort-modeled business-intensive residency program designed to aid creatives in scaling their endeavors. For more information please visit, www.202Creates.com.
About OCTFME
The Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment (OCTFME) produces and broadcasts programming for the District of Columbia’s public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television channels and digital radio station; regulates the District of Columbia’s cable television service providers; provides customer service for cable subscribers; and supports a sustainable film, music, and entertainment creative economy and labor market in the District of Columbia.
OCTFME operates and manages the District’s government television access channels: the District Council Channel (DCC), the District of Columbia Network (DCN), and the District Knowledge Network (DKN). OCTFME’s award-winning content provides resourceful information on government activity, education, current events, history, music, arts and entertainment. OCTFME manages and programs DC Radio 96.3 HD4 digital radio station, the District of Columbia’s first government radio station in partnership with Howard University’s WHUR.
OCTFME provides production support services that advance film, television, video, entertainment, interactive, multimedia, and digital media content creators. These services include: permitting; location scouting; production support; job placement assistance; workforce development; and the DC Film, Television and Entertainment Rebate Fund.
OCTFME supports the creative economy through the Mayor Muriel Bowser Presents: 202Creates initiative, administering programs supporting the growth and sustainability of the creative industries in all 8 Wards of the District.
For more information, contact the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment at (202) 671-0066, visit us online at: entertainment.dc.gov, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.