Above image credit: Daniel Gilmore plans to start a nonprofit marketing agency, Chosen Creative Concepts, to link people of color with a network of resources and opportunities. (Ji Stribling | Flatland)
As a teenager, Daniel Gilmore watched Ferguson, Missouri, burn in the riots that followed the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.
The tragedy and its aftermath started the St. Louis native, and son of two pastors, on a path that ignited a passion to foster creativity in children of color in Kansas City. After graduating from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, he knew he had a mission to fulfill.
Gilmoreās parents instilled Christian values in him from a young age that developed the philanthropic essence that propels him today.
Gilmore, a communications and social media manager at Swope Health, wants to launch a nonprofit to use those gifts. He is motivated by his own experiences related to …