The CDMA Business Model Academy Industry Advisory Board is composed of professionals whose experience helps guide student learning, career exposure, mentorship, and workforce readiness. Each advisory member brings real-world insight from a different sector of the Academy’s ecosystem, including media, music, healthcare, finance, education, wellness, operations, and creative entrepreneurship.
Their role is to help ensure that CDMA scholars are learning skills that connect directly to real professional expectations. Through advisory support, mentorship, and industry-aligned guidance, the board helps students develop the confidence, communication, discipline, and business awareness needed to succeed beyond the classroom.pages for your content. Have fun!
Our Industry Advisory Board
Tsadiqwah Scarville, Emmy® Nominee
TV Strategy & Technical Production
Tsadiqwah Scarville brings Emmy-nominated production experience and national broadcast insight into CDMA’s creative and technical pathways. She helps scholars understand the discipline, storytelling, and technical standards required to produce professional-quality media for film, television, streaming, and digital platforms.
Dr. Leven “Chuck” Wilson
Wellness & Institutional Safety
Dr. Leven “Chuck” Wilson brings expertise in wellness, mental health, nonprofit leadership, education, and institutional safety to CDMA’s student support model. He helps scholars build resilience, ethical leadership, emotional strength, and the personal discipline needed to succeed in school, business, and life.
Rachel Pisani
Strategic Growth & Fractional Operations
Rachel Pisani brings strategic marketing, fractional operations, nonprofit leadership, and growth planning into CDMA’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. She helps scholars understand branding, business structure, market positioning, and the operational systems needed to turn creative ideas into sustainable ventures.
DJ Jen Jen
Creative Technology & Global Rhythms
DJ Jen Jen brings music, culture, technology, and entrepreneurship together through her work as a DJ, producer, songwriter, and founder of the Jenergy Universe. Through her leadership in creative technology and JenergyAI, she helps CDMA scholars see how music, AI, STEM, branding, and business can become powerful career pathways.
Michella Savoy-Carter, MSN, RN-BC, CDCES
Healthcare Innovation & Public Advocacy
Michella Savoy-Carter brings healthcare leadership, Veteran care experience, and public advocacy into CDMA’s service-driven career pathways. She helps scholars understand the importance of professionalism, compassion, compliance, and workforce readiness in healthcare and community-centered industries.
Michael Aponte
Financial Strategy, High-Stakes Decision Advisory & Professional Standards
Michael Aponte brings a powerful blend of financial strategy, high-stakes decision-making, public-safety experience, authorship, and creative industry insight to the Academy. He helps CDMA scholars understand budgeting, risk assessment, ethics, crisis awareness, and the financial discipline needed to build responsible and sustainable ventures.
Catrina Brown
Instructional Literacy & ELA Standards
Catrina Brown brings more than 22 years of instructional leadership in English Language Arts, Social Sciences, literacy development, and student engagement. She helps CDMA scholars strengthen the reading, writing, communication, and critical-thinking skills needed to present ideas clearly and succeed across every career pathway.
Patrick Barnes
Musical Excellence & Legacy Mentorship
Patrick Barnes brings deep musical experience as a musician, composer, creative director, and founder of Devoted Music LLC. He helps CDMA scholars understand both the artistic discipline and business knowledge needed to build sustainable careers in music and performance.