Dexter Vizinau Wins Black Expo Community Impact Award

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By Post Staff

The Bay Area Black Expo Foundation Thursday presented a Community Impact Award to East Bay businessman Dexter Vizinau for his excellence in serving the community.

Vizinau was recognized for personal acts of kindness and good works as a compassionate and concerned community leader. He was one of six community leaders to receive the foundation’s Blue Diamond award at an event in downtown Oakland.

In business in both Oakland and Richmond, Vizinau supports companies at the old Army Base, where he has worked to retain small businesses that provide jobs and provide important services needed by the community. He is also president of CybertTran International, a technology start up company in Richmond that is commercializing ultra light rail transit, seeking to manufacture rail cars for the global market.

Dexter Vizinau

Vizinau also has been in charge of youth basketball at Hilltop YMCA for the past 10 years and is a member of the executive board of the Richmond NAACP. In addition, he has actively worked for over 15 years to support foster care, serving on the board of a foster care agency, Kair In-home Social Services.

The Bay Area Black Expo is held once a year in Oakland. Now in its 22nd year, it promotes community businesses and artists by providing them with high-end exposure to over 6,000 attendees.

The year’s expo will be held Saturday, Aug. 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland.