Photo of Maurice Cherry.

Maurice Cherry is the founder and editor-in-chief of Revision Path, host of the Revision Path podcast, and curator of 28 Days of the Web. Maurice is also creative principal at 3eighteen media, a design and consulting agency in Atlanta, GA, and the founder and chairman emeritus of the Black Weblog Awards. He’s also an educator, and has taught courses on web design and WordPress for Mediabistro, DeVry University, and other institutions.

Maurice was named one of Atlanta’s “Power 30 Under 30″ in the field of Science and Technology by the Apex Society, and one of HP’s “50 Tech Tastemakers” in conjunction with Black Web 2.0.

Pieces

Logos for the Black Weblog Awards, 2005-2011.

What Creating The Black Weblog Awards Taught Me

The Black Weblog Awards looked like a big success. But harassment, a lack of funding, “allies”, and lukewarm community support made it a constant struggle to keep going.