Reach - Then Teach

Reach - Then Teach


Dear Hannah: Derrick Brown's Oral History (#YourStory) (Episode 2.09 1999 White House Briefing, KB, StandupStorytelling) (7m59sec)

September 02, 2025

In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 2.09 "TRANSCRIPT": 48m02sec ... CMcI is getting ready to close ... tell us about the White House briefing ... I was on a mission - the KnowledgeBase mission ... we know the poseurs and the players now ... play with the players, avoid the poseurs ... AJC reporter (Andrew Glass) snuck into the briefing ... I sat next to him, talked to him, and sent him my manifesto ... that got me a lot of favorable press coverage ... this was helpful to KB ... Project CHIP refurbishes and redistributes obsolete computers ... we built CTCs, then hosted camps there ... Ernest Holsendolph of the AJC called me Johnny Appleseed (in 1998) ... his press coverage brought us lots of business opportunities (Fort Valley, Rome) ... I have "agency" 54m02sec ... I have run KB as part-time gig since 1998, and have stayed true to its mission ... 54m55sec I have evolved into a #StandupStoryteller ... my orange jacket is an homage to Clemson and my Native American heritage 56m01sec ...