This month, Cablefax named MMTC President and CEO Maurita Coley Flippin as one of the 2018 Most Influential Minorities. Cablefax’s award celebrates the contributions of minorities in technical, legal, financial, creative, and other fields who help shape the media and broadband industry.
Coley previously was named one of Cablefax’s Top Lawyers in 2017 and 2018. Focusing on advocating for the multicultural media in telecom issues before the FCC and other agencies as MMTC president and CEO, Coley draws on her 30-year background in the business.
Her experience includes serving on BET Holdings’ (now Viacom) executive management team as well as other businesses serving African American consumers. “Working for BET in the 1990s during the years when it was an African-American owned and controlled public company was my ‘Camelot’ experience, but there’s still time!” she says of her proudest career accomplishment. Coley, a former partner with Davis Wright Tremaine and Cole, Raywid & Braverman, is so passionate about diversity and media, she’s invested in several independent films produced by filmmakers of color. “I’m so proud when I see them airing on cable,” she says.
