Tyrone D. Taborn, Chairman and CEO of Career Communications Group, Inc. (CCG), is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology, the nation's oldest general-interest technology magazine for the Hispanic community.  Mr. Taborn is also the producer of the award-winning syndicated TV show "Success Through Education."  

     In addition to Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology, CCG,  a multimillion-dollar company, publishes US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine, Science Spectrum magazine and the Women of Color Technology magazine.  

      Mr. Taborn has been a guest editorial writer for the Baltimore Sun and has been a panelist on the television program "Square Off" at WJZ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland.  He now writes a national technology column that appears in newspapers, magazines, and on web sites and is currently a member of The National Association of Hispanic Journalists.  Taborn has been a member of the Baltimore Engineering Society and has served on the boards of the Afro-American Newspaper Company, the Baltimore Urban League, and the Granville Academy.  

     His other current and past board positions include Centro de la Comunidad, Inc., Baltimore Area Council Boy Scouts of America, the Montessori School in Baltimore County, Maryland, Afro-American Newspapers, the Executive Board of the Morgan State University Foundation, and the Board of Trustees of The Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust.  

    Taborn is the founder of Black Family Tech Week program, which is sponsored by the IBM Corporation and Kraft.  He is also the founder of LaFamilia Technology Awareness Week and the Native American Technology Awareness Project.

      Mr. Taborn was recently selected to receive the Hispanic Engineer of the Year Chairman Award.  He was also one of only nine Internet and Technology leaders honored by Sprint and MOBE IT, which recognizes Minority leaders and geniuses in technology, awarded the Visionary Award by Mercedes Benz, and was also named as one of the “50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology” by the editors of Blackmoney.com and souloftechnology.net, which sponsors the awards to demonstrate the critical role that Blacks play in the growth of cutting edge industries. 

     With roots in both the Latino and Black communities,  Taborn who grew up in Los Angeles, California, attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.   At Cornell, Mr. Taborn majored in government. He also held membership in the Senior Honor Society "Quill and Dagger" and was one of 32 academic scholars honored with membership in the prestigious Telluride Association. In 1978, Mr. Taborn was selected the first LBJ Intern in the office of late Congressman Julian C. Dixon. 

(Current as of  January 2003)

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