I’m Jimmy Spencer Jr and I’m working at the intersection of community engagement & AI.
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I understand how & where trust flows in a community.
My community work was a baptism of fire in post-Soviet Ukraine in the early 1990s. I’ve traveled the globe: hotspots across Asia, conversations in Colombia, faith-based friends in Africa, NGOs in the EU, and corporate consulting in North America.
I’ll help your community listen, and learn together.
Participation becomes insight. Glocal turns verified participation in community events into trusted, long-term community data.
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For 20 years a small team of volunteers has redistributed food from Trader Joe’s to at-risk families across Chicago.
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Decades of working across the globe with communities to raise engagement: NGO, corporate, civic, educational, political & faith-based.
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I grew up in a trailer park in the small town of Doylestown, just outside of Akron Ohio USA. I was the first person in my family to attend university.
I’ve witnessed the Berlin Wall fall, lived in the USSR during its implosion, consulted on UN projects, started a successful charity, and founded a community engagement tech company.
As a lifelong community worker & brand builder, I’ve become a resource for organizations looking to grow their brand by building local trust.
As a former elite runner and graduate of the University of Missouri, I live the athlete mindset of betting on yourself. I’m a discreet sounding board and strategic partner for athletes looking to expand their brand with charities. Athletes are my people. I feel at home amongst them and love to help them.
Personally, I love to see the world and meet new people. At my core, I’m just a nomad with a little bit of Midwestern USA flavor. I’m liberal and inclusive. I’ve learned that I’m just a tiny thread in a large and beautifully diverse human fabric. I’m most alive when I’m working on systems that ‘build a better us’.
The next layer of civic infrastructure. Glocal helps communities understand themselves and build a better “us.”
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