Roderick (Shane) Snipes’s Profile

Assistant Professor, Business Management Deputy Department Chairperson, Founder of Citizenpreneurs.com, Academic Champion of Blackstone LaunchPad

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Dr. Shane Snipes is assistant professor, deputy chair, and coordinator of the 2-year entrepreneurship degree at Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY Business Management Department. Dr. Snipes manages four programs – Citizen Entrepreneur Explorers Program (supported by Kauffman Foundation), Small Business Entrepreneurship (SBE) Associates Degree Program, BMCC Blackstone LaunchPad, and top secret partnership in the rural south – Building Diverse Rural to Urban Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Under his guidance the SBE has won NACCE Entrepreneurial Program Excellence Award (2018); is nominated for the USASBE 2021 Pedagogical Innovation Award; and programs will be featured in the NY Federal Reserve Innovation Showcase in late January 2022. Snipes speaks frequently at academic conferences, and entrepreneurship events about the importance of entrepreneurial diversity and mindfulness in business and learning environments. He was selected as a fellow for the Practice-based Teaching Fellowship with CUNY and the New York City CEO Council, a fellow for the 2020 Social Venture Research Institute, the 2019 Career Success Grant, 2019 CUNY I-Corps Research Grant and 2018 CUNY-PSC Grant, for his work in mindfulness in conjunction with improving entrepreneurship education. Dr Snipes has presented keynotes at entrepreneurship and mindfulness events since 2010. He has moderated more than 100 panels related to sustainability, entrepreneurship, education, and mindfulness. In 2010, Snipes founded Ecoroadtrip.com and traveled for 8 months speaking about sustainability interviewing more than 1000 people and conducting 200 talks on ecological issues. He hosted a web series called EcoCowboys. He currently teaches for the City University of New York system on a weekly basis and for eCornell on request. Prior to higher ed, Dr. Snipes was tech founder creating a sustainability analytics platform for assessing logistics and building data for its impacts on climate. He completed a BA in International Communication from N.C. State University (minors in political science, international relations, and engineering), holds an MBA from Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania while working on Fulbright Research, and completed a PhD in Sustainability Education from Prescott College.

Dr. Snipes teaches and researches how mindfulness improves businesses and education. As a scholar/practitioner, he developed the Citizen Entrepreneur Explorers Program (CEEP) at Citizenpreneurs.com. In a unique twist in higher education, the CEEP program asks students to discover a question about entrepreneurship in their neighborhood, collect data, analyze it, then most importantly report it back to the community. Projects are influencing policymakers, community groups, and local business owners. Kauffman Foundation has funded the expansion of the CEEP program nationally to increase the diversity of researcher pipeline. During 2021, Dr. Snipes helped bring the Blackstone Launchpad to BMCC’s campus (http://bmcc.startuptree.co). The Launchpad teaches entrepreneurial mindset to all majors. He’s an advocate for more inclusion and diversity in all areas of education and innovation. Find out more about publications here – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-5256

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Business Management, Interdisciplinary

Business Administration, A.S., Business Management, A.A.S., Digital Marketing, A.S., Financial Management, A.S., Small Business Entrepreneurship, A.A.S.