Loretta Redmond

Loretta Redmond serves as the Founder and Executive Director of the Museum of Black Inventors, a nonprofit organization she launched in 1996 and which operates from St. Louis, Missouri. The museum features traveling exhibits that highlight contributions by African American inventors from the 1800s to the present, including hands-on replicas, documents, photographs, and drawings, and it has been featured in national media such as USA Today and the Associated Press. Prior to focusing on her passion project, Redmond built a career spanning 25 to 30 years in healthcare revenue cycle management, beginning as a business manager for a cardiology group, managing a billing company for 16 years, and eventually founding her own practice management company where she employed staff and trained interns through a Welfare to Work program. In addition to the museum's exhibits and summer camps run in collaboration with St. Louis churches, Redmond has published her first book titled Getting Old is a Trip: The crap no one ever told me and is preparing to launch a magazine that spotlights families with multiple entrepreneurs.