Carmen Scott Dawson

Carmen Scott Dawson approaches health equity through innovation. After becoming disabled Carmen Scott Dawson created AdVanz, LLC dba Adreamz Institute. Advanz, and clients advocated, secured, and directed investments of over $20 million for a wide array of projects that led to the creation or stabilization of over 100 full time living wage jobs and multiple part-time living wage jobs. Carmen has focused his entrepreneurial leadership on creating broadband enabled, innovation-based communities, that drive workforce programs, and economic development. Carmen is a leader of innovations that are specifically designed to impact and improve health outcomes in target communities. Through Carmen’s collective works along with his unwavering commitment to broad based innovation development he earned Congressional and Senatorial Letters of Recognition. He has also been bestowed with federal, state, and local citations and proclamations from numerous government officials, including being awarded YMCA “African American Achiever of the Year.” Carmen Dawsons’ service to the community boards includes earning a position with the Eastside YMCA of Harborcreek and an appointment to the Eerie County Pennsylvania’s premiere Authority’s Board of Directors, the ECGA and ECCSFA, where he served as treasurer.