Clyde Edwards
Clyde Edwards, Director, Office of the Chairman and National Director of Community Impact
(202) 393-1011
Clyde Edwards plays a dual role at One Economy Corporation. As Director of the Office of the Chairman, Clyde serves the important role of the liaison between Board of Directors and the organization. In that role, he assists the Chairman, Rey Ramsey, with external affairs and strategic planning for the organization.
Clyde also serves as the National Director for the Community Impact Division for Interim President and CEO, Moustafa Mourad. As National Director of Community Impact, he leads his team using public purpose media to engage, inform and collaborate with communities to impact the many cities and regions One Economy serves; and individually he leads engagement the Northeast region of the country. As the leader of the Community Impact team, he is responsible for the acquisition of new opportunities to bring the organization’s community based technology solutions in other parts of the United States.
Before becoming Director of the Office
of the Chairman and Community Impact, he managed community partnerships
and program implementation for Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD as well
as media property assignments in Seattle, WA, Dayton, OH, and
Gulfport/Biloxi,
MS. Prior to his role as Program Officer and Community Liaison, he
coordinated,
managed logistics as the Special Assistant for CEO, Rey Ramsey.
Before One Economy, Clyde was Legislative Assistant to the President
of PodestaMattoon, one of Washington’s top ten high-tech lobbying
firms, where he handled legislative tracking and client relations for
eBay, Motion Picture Association of America, National Association of
Broadcasters, and Reed Elsevier Inc., among others. In 1997, he began
his career with former Congresswoman and current One Economy Board
member
Elizabeth Furse as her Scheduler and Legislative Assistant. He graduated
from Mount St. Mary's University with a BA in Political Science and
currently serves as an Auxiliary Board Member for the Washington Jesuit
Academy in Washington, DC and a member of Mount St. Mary's University
President's Council, an advisory board for the college.