Bryan Zises
Chair Of The Board Of Directors at Dispensary33
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Zises is an experienced communications and civic leader with a decade of executive-level experience building mission-driven organizations and brands from Chicago. As Chair of the Board for Abbia Specialty Cocoa, he blends strategic governance with hands-on work in sustainable agricultural development and international market-building for Cameroonian cocoa farmers. He also runs Zises Communications, advising political, multicultural and cannabis clients on public affairs and reputation strategy, while founding initiatives spanning housing, local government support, and entrepreneurial media. Bryan’s background includes senior public-sector leadership at the Illinois Housing Development Authority and communications direction at the Chicago Housing Authority, giving him rare fluency at the intersection of policy, community development, and stakeholder engagement. A University of Chicago AB and USC MFA alumnus who completed Seth Godin’s altMBA, he pairs creative storytelling with pragmatic operational leadership. He’s known for taking bold, rapid-action approaches—“Ready. Fire. Aim.”—to move complex civic and social ventures forward.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, MFA at University of Southern CaliforniaBrooklyn Technical HSAB, AB at University of ChicagoSeth Godin's AltMBA
Github Skills (10)
medical7
desktop5
drc5
react5
cpp5
nextcloud4
cv-template2
jekyll-theme2
jekyll2
resume1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zises/lgrci
Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
LGRCI
Contributions:10 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
zises/nerd
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:21 PRs, 36 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
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