CDMA Business Model® Rooted in a 100-year workforce legacy. Implemented across New York City, NY and Washington, DC public education environments for over a decade.
Harlem Renaissance to the 21st Century Workforce. One Platform. Every Community.
Legacy. Innovation. Longitudinal Impact.
The CDMA Business Model® is a licensed, evidence-based experiential learning system, built over two decades, rooted in 100 years of workforce legacy, and designed to create lasting career-connected outcomes for youth across education, community, and workforce environments.
That legacy begins at the Harlem Renaissance. The CDMA Business Model® founder is a direct descendant of a Black woman who operated one of the few Black-owned employment agencies of that era, a history preserved at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The work first took shape in New York City public Career & Technical Education environments, where youth media initiatives earned national and international recognition, including high school participants featured on BET’s 106 & Park in 2014.
Expanded across Washington, DC learning environments over more than a decade, the CDMA Business Model® has produced a generation of alumni, published authors, civic leaders, and college students now preparing for careers in medicine, media, and beyond.
Today, the CDMA Business Model® anchors a broader Evidence-Based CTE Ecosystem™ a structured approach available through alignment licensing to institutions, organizations, and communities building pathways where early exposure advances into demonstrated readiness, industry relevance, and career mastery.
Institutions and organizations seeking to implement CDMA Business Model® or any of it’s frameworks do so through an approved licensing agreement ensuring fidelity, quality, and long-term outcomes for every community it serves.
Evidence of Longitudinal Impact
From New York City classrooms to Washington, DC communities over a decade of young people moving from early exposure to career readiness, civic leadership, and lasting achievement.
This is not enrichment. It is not a one-time program. The CDMA Business Model® was designed from the beginning to follow a learner’s growth over time from curiosity to career readiness, from career readiness to career mastery.
That distinction is what makes the evidence meaningful. Longitudinal impact takes time, consistency, and a framework built to last and that is exactly what this work was designed to deliver.
Ten years later, we can show you where they are.
Alumni Spotlight
Over a Decade of Growth
Miajah came through CDMA Business Model® middle school CTE programming in Washington, DC. As a student, she became a published author and earned 3rd place in the DC Water book contest.
Today, she is a pre-med major preparing for service abroad in Africa.
That is what a decade of intentional, sustained investment looks like.
Documented learner growth. Community-rooted programming. Long-term outcomes that speak for themselves.
Celebrating 10 years of innovative youth leadership in DC. Miajah was a middle school published author who placed 3rd in a DC Water book contest. Today, she’s a pre-med major preparing for service abroad in Africa.
— CDMA Business Model (@CDMABusinessUSA) February 15, 2026
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In March 2014, CDMA Business Model students appeared on BET’s 106 & Park in the show’s final year of broadcast, nine months before it aired its last episode after a 14-year run as America’s number one urban music platform. The stage closed that December. The students had already been on it.
The CDMA Business Model ecosystem does not introduce young people to careers and call it done. The CDMA Business Model builds a pipeline from the first moment of exposure to the moment of demonstrated mastery. In middle school, career readiness begins. Young people engage, build foundational skills, and start making real connections between their talents and the world of work. In Washington, DC, that pipeline produced Miajah a middle school student who became a published author and is now a pre-med major preparing for service abroad in Africa (support her *smile). One decade. One documented line from readiness to trajectory. In high school, the standard rises from readiness to mastery. Not preparation — PROOF. In New York City, CDMA Business Model program students took a field trip during school hours to BET’s 106 & Park and appeared on national and international syndication on America’s number one urban music platform in the show’s final year of broadcast before it closed a 14-year run in December 2014. Two cities. Two age groups. Two levels of documented outcome. One ecosystem that builds the bridge from career readiness to career mastery and has over 20 decades of receipts to prove it. These are two of our featured stories.