The Brand Placement Agency to Honor Local Athletes, Coaches at Leadership Summit
AC JosepH Media
VINELAND — About 100 elite local athletes and 10 coaches will be honored for their leadership on and off the field during The Brand Placement Agency’s Athlete Leadership Summit Powered by Out of Boundz at 6 p.m. at the Landis Theater, 830 East Landis Avenue, on Thursday, May 28.
The Brand Placement Agency, founded by marketing veteran James Cooper, is a full-service marketing and promotion firm specializing in generational brand integration. Headquartered in New Jersey, the agency leverages decades of expertise to help brands navigate the $35 trillion generational marketplace.
The Athlete Leadership Summit serves as the premier platform for brands to connect with the next generation of leaders. The Summit specifically honors standout high school athletes and coaches, celebrating Leadership on and off the field.
Special guest panelists include JT Burks, of the youth nonprofit Positive Vibes, Trust Cooper, founder of Field Drip Sports Marketing; Lois Koering, physical therapist with NovaCare; Dann Kabala, of Rutgers NIL; Mike Eckmeyer, Bridgeton High School principal; Paul Gause, New York Life representative and former NBA player; and Richard Douglas, manager of Vineland Nova Care.
The agency will give its Lifetime Mentorship Award to Hassan Hameed-El. A special tribute will honor late Cumberland County Prosecutors’ Office Det. Sgt. Monica Mosley.
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Whether it’s at Hassan’s Hair Hut at 742 E. Wood St., or his Next Level Boxing Gym, Hassan Hameed-El has been known for his caring, sharing and mentoring as much as his haircuts and teaching boxers how to deliver a great punch.
Words, work and wisdom is how many come to describe Hameed-El in the various ways they encounter him in the barbershop, his boxing gym or out in the community.
For Hameed-El, who has been a fixture throughout Cumberland County for youth of color for more than three decades, he was simply giving advice to young people willing to hear it, guiding people who wanted to be shown the way, and mentoring people who wanted to be mentored.
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Mosley, and beloved law enforcement officer in Cumberland County, was senselessly killed Oct. 15, 2024 in a shooting incident as she fought valiantly to save her own life at her home. A native of Bridgeton,
Mosley started her career in the prosecutor’s office as a paralegal in 2006 and three years later advanced to county detective. She worked in the special victim’s unit where she investigated sexual violence crimes against the most vulnerable members in the community.
Then she worked in the professional standards unit, carrying out the function of internal affairs, which Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said was the most important work done in her office.
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