Jason Dunn

Director of Multicultural Affairs and Community Development, Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau
Cincinnati, Ohio
Age: 33

Jason Dunn might not have known what a convention and visitors bureau was when he was growing up, but he says he can’t imagine working anywhere better. “We get to travel around the country, host events, entertain people, sit back and see how the city has changed,” he says. The CVB hired Dunn in 2004, impressed after he planned the pre-opening for the National Underground Freedom Center. Today, Dunn’s role as director of multicultural affairs involves connecting conventions with local multicultural businesses and educating the multicultural community about what the CVB is doing. He encourages citizens to be ambassadors for the city, sharing the story of Cincinnati’s transformation in the last decade. His involvement with the multicultural community has played a large role in attracting national and international conventions to town, including the National Baptists, NAACP, World Choir Games and National Society of Hispanic MBAs. In Dunn’s personal time, which he spends with wife Tiffany and 8-year-old daughter Mya, he’s still swallowed up by tourism and hospitality, traveling for conferences and events for church, fraternity or Mya. —J. Garrett