Diversity & Inclusion in tech and Natural Hair (with Afua Donkor)
Release Date: 04/13/2021
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Michael speaks with two Black fathers. Femi Agbayewa is a Nigerian-Canadian storyteller and father to a baby girl. Richard Geneste is a Haitian-American chemical engineer and father of an eight-year-old son.
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Michael speaks with actor Michael Hyatt, who stars as Cissy Saint on the FX hit Snowfall.
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Michael speaks with Conphidance, a multi-talented entertainer who is a star and face of the Apple TV+ series, "Little America." He has also been featured in the CBS comedy, "Bob Hearts Abishola," “Atlanta” (FX), “American Gods” (Starz), “Complications” (USA Network), and so many more.
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Michael speaks with Afua Donkor, Lead of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Reddit, where she works with the company’s Employees Resource Groups and Sr. Executives to promote an inclusive workplace.
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Michael speaks with Chinasokwu "Nas" Nworu, a Nigerian-American born in the U.S. He is a licensed Occupational Therapist for the New York City Dept. of Ed. He co-founded PVO Global, a platform focused on social change and social responsibility.
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This week we're joined by serial entrepreneur Jean-Pierre Adéchi. He is of Benin, Sengalese, and Congolese heritage. His ventures include catering, film, film festival companies, and most recently Wheeli--a Techstars and venture capital-backed tech startup.
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Michael speaks with Dr. Jody Dublin, a West Indian-American (Bermuda, Jamaica, Grenada) higher education consultant and scholar of Latin-American and Caribbean studies. She is the founder of The Advisor is In a Brooklyn-based, one-on-one coaching and consulting firm. We talk about the varied components of Blackness and Black identity, as well as the intertwined history of Black immigrants and the American Civil Rights movement.
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Michael speaks with Laurel Djoukeng a Cameroonian-American born and raised in Washington, D.C. The former Wall Street investment banker is now the founder of the social enterprise CNF and the tech start-up Sparc. Laurel talks about being his authentic self as he navigated through multiethnic and non-diverse spaces. He also discusses building better bonds across the global African diaspora.
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Iveoma Okparaeke is a Nigerian-American attorney and the Founder of IGTN "Iveoma's Guide To Nigeria," a platform that shares insightful information about Nigeria through a diaspora lens.
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The ENODI Podcast with Michael Rain features conversations about the lives, cultural innovations, and entrepreneurial impact of people with immigrant backgrounds.
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Afua came to the U.S. from Ghana at the age of four, growing up in New York. We discuss how her multicultural background contributes to how she impacts diversity in professional spaces, being authentic in Black and African communities, and the role her hair played in the self-acceptance of her full self.