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August 16, 2022

City of Tacoma

Frank Boykin has joined the city of Tacoma to oversee the Washington Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Business Center, which provides technical assistance and business consulting to established minority-owned businesses in Washington state. Embedded within the city of Tacoma's Community and Economic Development Department since September 2016, the Washington MBDA Business Center was established as part of a cooperative agreement between the city of Tacoma and the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is one of 35 MBDA Business Centers across the country. Boykin has more than three decades of professional, leadership, relationship-building and community experience. Most recently he served as director of the Manufacturing Industrial Council at the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce. During his time there, Boykin also served as head of the Pierce County Business Accelerator (PCBA), a cohort-based program established in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic to provide resources to entrepreneurs and business owners in Pierce County including training, coaching and technical assistance. PCBA focuses on underserved and BIPOC communities. Prior to that, Boykin worked for 25 years as a United Parcel Service executive.




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