Creative Sector Is Vital to a Thriving City, Create Birmingham’s New CEO Says - BirminghamWatch

Creative Sector Is Vital to a Thriving City, Create Birmingham’s New CEO Says - BirminghamWatch

Quang Do this year joined Create Birmingham as its president and CEO. (Photo by Olivia McMurrey) Friends were encouraging Quang Do to apply for the president and CEO role with Create Birmingham when he coincidentally found the first check he had ever received for performing spoken-word poetry, as a 19-year-old. It was from Create Birmingham. “I remember seeing that check and being like, ‘Oh, this is weird, all the pieces coming into play,’” Do s…