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Meet Brent Schooley, Twilio’s Philly evangelist [Links Roundup]

Plus: allen & gerritsen wins an Adweek award.

From left: Dr. LaVerne Harmon, Anna Welsh and Bebe Coker. (Courtesy Photo)

Introducing Brent Schooley, Twilio Developer Evangelist [Twilio blog]: Schooley, 32, is one of 12 evangelists for San Francisco-based Twilio. Twilio’s evangelists cover eight metro areas including cities like New York, London, Washington, D.C., and Charlotte, N.C. The Indy Hall member started as Philly’s Twilio evangelist this spring and lives in Old City.

Allen & Gerritsen Wins Adweek Project Isaac Award [allen & gerritsen blog]: The Center City team won for its Instagram/RFID-powered Tic-tac-toe game.

15 People Who Are Taking Networking to a New Level [FastCompany]: Leadership Philadelphia’s Liz Dow gets a shout on this list.

Students Present Solutions for an Aging Population in Nexus Maximus Sprint [Philadelphia University]: “Nexus Maximus is Philadelphia University’s largest sprint project to date, encompassing 26 teams of industrial design, occupational therapy, engineering, business, architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and physician assistant studies students who each brought their unique perspectives to help solve the problems related to an aging urban population.”

Companies: Allen & Gerritsen / Philadelphia University

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