Chicago native Renita Young is Founder and Chief Vocal Architect of The Vocale Group, a business devoted to give voice to your vision through voice-overs, public speaking, media contributing and media training. She's also an award-winning broadcast financial journalist who has covered the biggest stories that move markets for three of the world's top financial news networks. With stellar multimedia news gathering skills and her unique style of reporting formed over the past 17 years, she navigates the financial landscape with finesse. Renita blends traditional journalism with a strong command of social media, using her entrepreneurial spirit to creatively bring the full vision into focus.
Most recently, Renita served as a Host and Senior Markets Correspondent at Schwab Network in Chicago. Her journey includes a noteworthy stint in New York as a TV and radio correspondent with Bloomberg and Reuters, where she launched two shows centered on personal finance and two focusing on the culture and commerce impacting Black audiences. Her 2021 Bloomberg Radio feature on the social media influencer pay gap earned her two prestigious awards: the Association for Women in Communications’ Clarion Award for Radio Feature and First Place in Radio Enterprise Reporting from the Journalists Association of New York. Renita has also had stints reporting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with the Pulitzer Prize-winning NOLA.com | The Times Picayune; Washington, D.C.; Nairobi, Kenya, and at the 2012 London Olympic Games with BBC TV and Radio.
A sought-after speaker and live interviewer, Renita has presented transformative Employee Resource Group workshops with Zillow, Bloomberg and Snackbox PR. She's also interviewed a wide variety of guests ranging from Federal Reserve of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic and former CEO of American Express Ken Chenault to businessman and former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal and actress and mental health advocate Taraji P. Henson.
Coming from a long line of entrepreneurs, Renita blends the wisdom she's gleaned from her family, with her variety of experiences in different workplaces and interviewing some of the most brilliant business minds, to inform her signature talks, workshops and host of creative projects.
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