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Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we’re back to Borderless Building with Black Women in Real Estate. So far this year we’ve showcased the personal and professional journeys of Black women in careers spanning project design, development, investor relations and community engagement with experience from as far east as Japan to the western United States. This week we’re taking a grip down south--south east to be more precise with a finance professional doubling as a farmer. She truly embodies the spirit of land stewardship. Chanell Henry is a British-Jamaican entrepreneur, with a background in investment operations across hedge funds and asset management in London. After several years working in finance, Chanell made the decision to channel her commercial and investment experience into agriculture, co-founding Clarendon Gold Limited - a 100-acre commercial orchard, with her father, Vendrys Henry. Together, they are applying all of their crafts and learning all things commercial orchard farm in Clarendon, Jamaica, where their primary crop is ackee - Jamaica’s national fruit. All the while, they are also building the infrastructure, team and commercial relationships needed to develop a wider agricultural business. Self-funded with over £300,000 invested to date, Clarendon Gold is being built with a long-term vision spanning cultivation, processing, packaging and export. Chanell’s journey reflects her commitment to connecting diaspora capital and expertise with productive opportunities in Jamaica, while contributing to local employment and the development of Jamaica’s agricultural value chain. Where to find Chanell? On the farm @ Clarendon Gold What’s Chanell reading, watching and listening to? Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover The Office Michael, the movie Other topics of interest: South East London Flavour About Clarendon, Jamaica Jamaica’s Argo Parks Initiative About Grace Kennedy A documentary about Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa Special Guest: Chanell Henry.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! We recorded this two-part conversation in the final days of my summer sojourn to the U.S. While it was a bit shorter than it has been in the recent past, this summer was another one for the books; made possible in large part by community, a consistent theme that I hope you too can appreciate as the way we become us and collectively move humanity forward. My guest, Rahman Ali Bugg is part of my "BK Fam" community — which you'll learn more aobut in our conversation, and he’s sharing his inspiring journey from Paterson, New Jersey, to becoming a seasoned executive producer in the unscripted television industry, rooting in NYC by the strength of community bonds. He’s an executive producer, showrunner, and creative director with 30+ years leading unscripted television, documentaries, live broadcasts, and multi-platform storytelling for BET, MTV, A&E, Amazon, Roc Nation, MSG, and major cultural brands. As an entrepreneur he founded PopStar Media, built around one core idea: that stories have power, and that power comes with responsibility. This ethic carries into his roles as Lead Exectutive Producer and Creative Director at Red Summer TV, a full service production company specializing in television and digital programming. His work includes docu-series “Exposing Parchman” (ITV/A&E/Roc Nation) to Free Meek (Amazon) to Welcome to Rap City (Mass Appeal/BET) — lives at the intersection of culture, justice, and great television. In addition to building the kind of content that moves audiences and making sure the teams behind that content are developed, challenged, and supported, he is passionate about media education — teaching at the university level, leading workshops for emerging producers, or building curriculum for the next generation of storytellers. What I hope you will take away from this discussion is an understanding of how Rahman's diverse experiences, community roots, and passion for storytelling shaped his career and approach to media that matters. In Part 2, we go deeper with thoughts on how creatives can reimagine industry practices and build resilient, collaborative communities. Where to find Rahman? On LinkedIn On IMDB On Instagram On Facebook On YouTube What’s Rahman watching? Lioness Slow Horses Reacher The Pitt and other medical dramas to check out The Carol Burnett Show Animal Control What’s Rahman listening to? Snoh Aalegra Eric Benet Chante Moore Anita Baker New Edition Other topics of interest: About Paterson, New Jersey About The Great Migration About the Nation of Islam from the 1934-75 Brooklyn by Neighborhood About Exposing Parchman Music Video Television in the 1990s About the W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute About Rahman’s Alma Mater About music duo Foreign Exchange Special Guest: Rahman Ali Bugg.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! We recorded this two-part conversation in the final days of my summer sojourn to the U.S. While it was a bit shorter than it has been in the recent past, this summer was another one for the books; made possible in large part by community, a consistent theme that I hope you too can appreciate as the way we become us and collectively move humanity forward. My guest, Rahman Ali Bugg is part of my "BK Fam" community — which you'll learn more aobut in our conversation, and he’s sharing his inspiring journey from Paterson, New Jersey, to becoming a seasoned executive producer in the unscripted television industry, rooting in NYC by the strength of community bonds. He’s an executive producer, showrunner, and creative director with 30+ years leading unscripted television, documentaries, live broadcasts, and multi-platform storytelling for BET, MTV, A&E, Amazon, Roc Nation, MSG, and major cultural brands. As an entrepreneur he founded PopStar Media, built around one core idea: that stories have power, and that power comes with responsibility. This ethic carries into his roles as Lead Exectutive Producer and Creative Director at Red Summer TV, a full service production company specializing in television and digital programming. His work includes docu-series “Exposing Parchman” (ITV/A&E/Roc Nation) to Free Meek (Amazon) to Welcome to Rap City (Mass Appeal/BET) — lives at the intersection of culture, justice, and great television. In addition to building the kind of content that moves audiences and making sure the teams behind that content are developed, challenged, and supported, he is passionate about media education — teaching at the university level, leading workshops for emerging producers, or building curriculum for the next generation of storytellers. What I hope you will take away from this discussion is an understanding of how Rahman's diverse experiences, community roots, and passion for storytelling shaped his career and approach to media that matters. In Part 2, we go deeper with thoughts on how creatives can reimagine industry practices and build resilient, collaborative communities. Where to find Rahman? On LinkedIn On IMDB On Instagram On Facebook On YouTube What’s Rahman watching? Lioness Slow Horses Reacher The Pitt and other medical dramas to check out The Carol Burnett Show Animal Control What’s Rahman listening to? Snoh Aalegra Eric Benet Chante Moore Anita Baker New Edition Other topics of interest: About Paterson, New Jersey About The Great Migration About the Nation of Islam from the 1934-75 Brooklyn by Neighborhood About Exposing Parchman Music Video Television in the 1990s About the W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Institute About Rahman’s Alma Mater About music duo Foreign Exchange Special Guest: Rahman Ali Bugg.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! In this two-part conversation, Natasha Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as the executive director of several nonprofit organizations, as an anti-trafficking legal specialist drafting reform legislation in the Solomon Islands, and as a director of education working to support homeless LGBTQ youth. She is skilled at creating arts-based programming that integrates human rights and social justice awareness in elementary through graduate school environments. She has also taught courses in law, ethics, policy, civic engagement, education, nonprofit leadership, business development, and more. in her scholarly roles, she has been a professor and a director of academic programs at multiple colleges and universities, including Metropolitan College, St. Joseph’s College, Adelphi University, and Medgar Evers College. In 2015, she founded Globalizing Gender, a nonprofit organization committed to creating a just world and preventing gender-based violence through capacity building, law, governance, and awareness. In 2018, she organized New York City’s inaugural march to end female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) in the United States and was one of the lead contributors to a local statute that created a mayoral-appointed culturally aware task force on FGM/C, the first of its kind in the country. After years of selfless work in diverse communities across the globe, Natasha is at an inflection point in her career and we’re fortunate to get a glimpse of how she’s approaching finding and settling into a new next. Where to find Natasha? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook Her TEDxFlatbush Talk on YouTube What’s Natasha reading? All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby The Revelation of Dionne Daphne by Mara Brock Akil Delicious Foods by James Hannaham Other topics of interest: About Flatbush, Brooklyn About Brooklyn’s oldest High School - Boys and Girls High School About the Solomon Islands Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian peoples of the Pacific Revist Glocal Citizen, Brigitte Perenyi’s own personal experience in the trokosi system What defines Gender-based Violence? What is FGM/C? What is a B-Corp? About Tower Records Special Guest: Natasha R. Johnson.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! In this two-part conversation, Natasha Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as the executive director of several nonprofit organizations, as an anti-trafficking legal specialist drafting reform legislation in the Solomon Islands, and as a director of education working to support homeless LGBTQ youth. She is skilled at creating arts-based programming that integrates human rights and social justice awareness in elementary through graduate school environments. She has also taught courses in law, ethics, policy, civic engagement, education, nonprofit leadership, business development, and more. in her scholarly roles, she has been a professor and a director of academic programs at multiple colleges and universities, including Metropolitan College, St. Joseph’s College, Adelphi University, and Medgar Evers College. In 2015, she founded Globalizing Gender, a nonprofit organization committed to creating a just world and preventing gender-based violence through capacity building, law, governance, and awareness. In 2018, she organized New York City’s inaugural march to end female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) in the United States and was one of the lead contributors to a local statute that created a mayoral-appointed culturally aware task force on FGM/C, the first of its kind in the country. After years of selfless work in diverse communities across the globe, Natasha is at an inflection point in her career and we’re fortunate to get a glimpse of how she’s approaching finding and settling into a new next. Where to find Natasha? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook Her TEDxFlatbush Talk on YouTube What’s Natasha reading? All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby The Revelation of Dionne Daphne by Mara Brock Akil Delicious Foods by James Hannaham Other topics of interest: About Flatbush, Brooklyn About Brooklyn’s oldest High School - Boys and Girls High School About the Solomon Islands Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian peoples of the Pacific Revist Glocal Citizen, Brigitte Perenyi’s own personal experience in the trokosi system What defines Gender-based Violence? What is FGM/C? What is a B-Corp? About Tower Records Special Guest: Natasha R. Johnson.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s encore episode revisits a conversation with a fellow teammate and black woman in real estate, motivational speaker, 5-time Olympian representing the Bahamas, and #ChocolateCardinal, Jacqueline "Jackie" Edwards-Flowers. As an adjunct to our collaboration with Black Women in Real Estate, which, so far taken us from London, via Nigeria and Barbados, to The South Bronx in the United States. Keeping local in the US, we’re traveling across the country from New York to California, via the Bahamas (and Jamaica) where we get into real estate from the value-added perspective. With a professional background spanning competitive sports, personal training, entrepreneurship--she founded a compressions socks company, and event planning, Jackie’s path in real estate is grounded in the know how and passion to apply her marketing, design and project management skills in getting to “Sold!” Be sure to continue following our #BorderlessBuilding series, back next month, with another scaffolding conversation and Pan-African women’s real estate story (pun in tended 😉). Where to find Jackie? Gold Medal Home Staging and Design On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On Thumbtack On Wikipedia What's Jackie watching? HGTV The Bachelorette The Bachelor The Real Housewives of Atlanta What's Jackie reading? Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power by T.D. Jakes Other topics of interest: Thomas Robinson Stadium Frank Rutherford Jackie Joyner-Kersee Brooks Johnson Mike Powell Meet Dr. Ross Flowers Altra Running Shoes Special Guest: Jacqueline "Jackie" Edwards-Flowers.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast storytelling takes center stage with Eric Hamilton, an award-winning AI filmmaker, technology visionary, and innovation leader with over 30 years of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence, storytelling, and digital culture. Eric and I met during early 2000’s when the recent scaffold of tech innovation was in its infancy. Fast forward to these new age “'roaring 20s” and Eric is now the President and Executive Producer of EHAMX Studios, a next-generation AI film and media company producing hyper-real, cinematic content through advanced generative AI systems. His feature film EHAM Classified—a high-intensity sci-fi action thriller—won Best Sci-Fi Film at the New York International Film Festival and has earned recognition from international festivals including Top Shorts. Before founding EHAMX Studios, Eric held leadership roles at global technology organizations including Google, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, and Dow Jones, where he led innovation across analytics, digital platforms, and emerging technologies. Through his films and media projects, Eric continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible when cinematic storytelling and artificial intelligence unite on screen. #Listenandlearn more as Eric shares his journey from tech executive to innovative creator, exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming cinematic storytelling and discover his tools, techniques, and insights on the future of AI in film and culture. Where to find Eric? On LinkedIn On IMDB On Instragram On Facebook On YouTube What’s Eric reading? Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI by Max Tegmark What’s Eric listening to? Diary of a CEO Other topics of interest: All about Cary, North Carolina Revisit Glocal Citizen, Jon Laster and the BLAPP app On Eric’s viral video and interview with David Malkoff MLK Ski Weekend Creative AI tools to try - Sora, VEO3, ComfyUI. SeeDance, Suno Urban Film Festival FilmFreeway On Ben Affleck’s InterPositive AI company About Uganda’s visionary leader, Archbishop Janani Luwum Special Guest: Eric Hamilton.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we’re getting to know Robert “Rob” North, a U.S. Marine Veteran, All–American, lovable off-the-wall, skilled carpenter that has truly carved out a niche for himself. Born and raised on Chicago's South Side, Rob inviites us through getting to know his story of becoming a Marine, to a TV personality, and an all-around global builder. Taking the world of DIY by storm and making home improvement affordable and accessible to all, in his projects Rob breaks down home repairs and improvement, inspiring his audience to follow his motto, “If you can’t find a way, make a way!” Teaching his audience how to make that way, Rob has built a large television and online following as a finish carpenter on HGTV’s Designed to Sell, as a Co-host on Frank Fontana’s Down and Dirty, Co-host on Reality Series Skrew’d, as well as spokesman and DIY Guru for Craftsman. He is currently featured as one of the main hosts of the popular BYU TV humaniitarian travel show, The Fixers – think Habitat for Humanity meets IShowSpeed. In each episode he goes around the world helping non-profit organizations improve their work to help others. From the Kingston’s Inner City Streets to a remote riverside village in Ghana, Rob and The Fixers are making the world a better place one project at a time. Listen, learn and discover how Rob’s diverse experiences and investments shape his approach to life, work, and making a difference worldwide. Where to find Rob? @ Ron North on TV On The Fixers Seed & Stone Builders On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook What’s Rob listening to? Theater for the Mind Podcast Other topics of interest: Native American an and Irish interactions in American History GI Joe the cartoon series BCII Productions About Hempcrete Check out Mrs. North aka Cissa Paz Music and @Aurora Planning About the Mackinac Sailing Event Fun Facts about Lake Michigan What exactly is a Square Wave? Black Americans and Bow Hunting Traditions With the tragic landslide and flooding in Nepal, it’s heartbreaking to think about how already limited resources are impacting those with longstanding needs for assistance. As Rob mentioned in the conversation, he is about a third of the way to raising the funds to support his apprentice with the lifesaving procedure for his niece. Check out Rob’s appeal and the GoFundMe he started to help this family in need. Special Guest: Rob North.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! Back in 2013, a spark of inspiration gave light to an initiative that I went on to recruit a handful of friends to join in on the Flirt with the World’s Million Condom Giveaway at locations across Accra on World AIDS Day 2013. As part of our local press tour, I visited a local radio station, 107.9 YFM where I met htis week’s guest Amma Boakye-Danquah--shout out to her co-host, fellow Glocal Citizen,Emmanuel Gamor. Amma, like me was a fres arrival in Ghana and over the years has expanded her professional portfolio in all manner of dimensions. As a strategic advisor and innovation leader with over 16 years of experience shaping education systems, youth leadership, and adaptive learning across West Africa, she has led multimillion-dollar initiatives at USAID , including the $22M Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Regional Leadership Center and the development of the West Africa Learning and Knowledge (WALK) Agenda, helping institutions turn data into action and policy into practice. Known for building unlikely partnerships across government, philanthropy, media, and the private sector, Her work sits at the intersection of systems change, evidence-based strategy, and inclusive leadership. Her career spans collaborations with organizations such as the Mastercard Foundation, Microsoft , and regional bodies including ECOWAS. She currently serves as the Associate Director of Imperial Global Ghana , where she bridges world-class research and practical market applications by fostering strategic partnerships among researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers across the public, private, and third sectors. Rooted in a global perspective on urban policy, education, and development, qnd with foundational experience teaching middle school mathematics in under-resourced schools in Louisiana through Teach For America, beyond her academic and policy work, she is a passionate cultural convener bringing art, history, and community together. Where to find Amma? @ Imperial Global Ghana On LinkedIn On Substack What’s Amma listening to? The Our Ancestors Were Messy Podcast What’s Amma reading? Small Worlds Other topics of interest: Oyibi, Ghana Labari Data Homeschool Collective On Indigeneering Commonwealth Fellowship Programme About Ghana’s National Science and Math Quiz Post Hurricane Katrina School Takeovers in New Orleans Special Guest: Amma Boakye-Danquah.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we’re visiting points east, west, north and south with my guest who began his professional career as a graffiti artist on the streets of Houston, Texas in the late 1990s at the age of 16. By the 2000s, he had evolved into an acclaimed Primitive Abstract and Primitivism painter, a body of work he calls Living Dreams. As you’ll here in the conversation, he does not sit down and plan his paintings. He dreams them. The images, the phrases, the poetry you see on his canvases come to him in a dream state, and he wakes up and puts them down exactly as he received them. The patterns behind them are sound itself, translated into color and shape. Look closely and you will find Mayan glyphs, Native American symbols, Egyptian and Sumerian script, alongside a language he invented entirely on his own. His work has traveled as he has. From Houston to London, from Osaka to Miami, from Brooklyn to Bogotá and Cartagena, from Santo Domingo and points beyond. Wherever he lands, the questions in his art stay the same. Wealth against poverty. Integration against segregation. Power, and who gets to hold it. He does not just make the work for commercial purposes, he gives it away. A significant share of every piece he sells goes straight back to the people he paints alongside, the ones working hard for very little, the ones the world calls poor. He is, in his own words, the Dreamer and the Dream. Where to find Wambo? mwamba-salim-wilson.com On Instagram In Books Other topics of interest: [U.S. Armed Forces Sports]((https://armedforcessports.defense.gov) On Abstract Expressionism and Neo Expressionist Artists Living in Thailand Visiting Sweden Fun times @Six Flags On the Columbian Art Scene In case you’re curious about the studio tour, check out the video episode on YouTube. Special Guest: Mwamba-Salim "Wambo" Wilson.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! Hello from Londontown, where I find myself officially starting my summer antics for the 2026 season. And where I’ve found inspiration for this week's compilation episode. From an early episode with crime writer, Leye Adenle, to last year’s conversation with activist and social entrepreneur, Lavinya Stennett, we’ll hear a range of Pan-African perspectives on how London is local for these guests--all of which happen to also be writers. Serial entrepreneur, investor and author of We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business Can Change Our World, Eric Collins shares perspectives as an immigrant from the US to the UK. Lawyer, international development consultant, journalist, politician and author of Love Does Not Win Elections, Ayisha Osori helps us to understand home as presence. Award-winning author of Easy Motion Tourist, with a forthcoming new series due to launch this year with Fall From Grace, Leye Adenle shares about his London before experiencing it as a writer. As a lux-preneur herself, award-winning luxury business consultant, Elizabeth Solaru, author of best-selling book, Opulencia and LUXpreneur: How to start and build a successful luxury brand, is taking us along in her experiences transitioning from a career in the sciences to business. Architect, artist, and multi-faceted creative, Robertson Ahomka-Lindsay shares how his talents from design to music helped to give his London life an artisic flair. And finally, founder of The Black Curriculum, fimmaker and author of Omitted: The Untold Black History Lessons We Need to Change the Future, Lavinya Stennett helps us to understand effective organizing techniques for impact. If you haven’t already settled in, mind the gap and take a seat on this Tube ride through London. Where to find full conversations and show notes from episodes with this week’s guests? Eric Collins Ayisha Osori Leye Adenle Elizabeth Solaru Robertson Ahomka-Lindsay Lavinya Stennett Soundscape: Sounds Like a Train on YouTube Special Guests: Ayisha Osori, Elizabeth Solaru, Eric Collins, Lavinya Stennett, Leye Adenle, and Robertson Ahomka-Lindsay.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This past spring, a volunteer from the Digital Democracy Project reached out to me about its founder and this week’s guest, Ramon Perez. I’d never heard of the project and as a podcast about the many dimensions of citizenship, this was a very necessary conversation exploring innovative ways to enhance citizen participation and reform democracy using technology like AI, blockchain, and mobile voting. As an AI technology executive and US military veteran, Ramon founded the Digital Democracy Project as an accountability system and mobile voting platform that connects voters directly with their legislative representatives to address systemic problems in the electoral system that result in hyper-partisanship and widespread voter alienation. To achieve better outcomes, he believes technology can be used as a catalyst for building a more modern, representative system of government giving greater control directly to voters. #Listenandlearn more as we discuss systemic challenges in US politics and how technology can create a more transparent, accountable, and inclusive democratic process. Where to find Ramon and the Digital Democracy Project? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On Bluesky On YouTube What’s Ramon Listening to? The Lord of the Rings Series Audiobooks Empire Podcast Other topics of interest: On the Enduring Legacy of 9/11 About OneVirginia21 What is Gerrymandering? About ranked-choice voting What is Hyperledger Fabric? Homomorphic encryption explained Chapters 00:06 Intro and Guest Bio 01:54 Ramon Perez's Background and Motivation 03:14 Defining Democracy in the 21st Century 03:22 Limitations of Current Electoral Systems 05:30 Civic Responsibility and Voter Engagement 07:16 Educating Voters with Technology 09:50 AI's Role in Legislative Summaries 13:57 Systemic Problems in US Elections 16:16 Verifiability, Accountability, and Transparency 17:54 Ramon Perez's Career Path and Transition to AI 20:06 Public Perception of AI and Ethical Use 21:14 Tools and Innovations in Digital Voting 26:07 Global Examples of Democratic Success 35:34 Glocal Speak: Transparency as a Key Value 37:19 Organizing and Operating a Nonprofit Project 42:51 Historical Progress of Voting Rights 44:34 Future Goals and Expansion of the Project 46:44 Ramon Perez's Leisure and Personal Interests 47:42 Reflections on the Evolution of AI and Democracy Special Guest: Ramon Perez.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week, as the summer heat inches up across the northern hemishphere, we’re hosting our youngest guest yet on the podcast. Augusta Barlow is a 14-year old change agent. Born and raised in Maryland in the United States, with family roots in Cape Verde, she believes in assistance through advocacy and service through sharing. She recently completed her freshman year at Northwestern High School, a public comprehensive and magnet school in Hyattsville, Maryland known for its rigorous Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) program. This year, in addition to starting high school she took on another new challenge as one of 12 participants globally in The Kuda Vana Partnership International’s, Youth Advocacy Voice Amplifiers-YAVA group which kicked off it’s inaugural cohort in October of 2025. YAVA is KVPI's youth program, where students learn to advocate for the mission and amplify it responsibly online. This cohort is running a capstone project driven by a set of interviews plus a coordinated push to grow the organization's reach the right way. In a why the where teaser, when her mother, friend to the podcast and colleague of our guest in Episode 93, Sef Ashiagbor, suggested she join YAVA so she could use her new Instagram account to help people, she agreed wholeheartedly. When not in school or doing work for YAVA, Augusta enjoys theater, movies, cooking and baking. Where to find YAVA? @ KVPI On Instagram On TikTok On YouTube On GoFundMe What’s Augusta reading? None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell …watching? The Knives Out Trilogy …listening to? Lyn Lapid Music Other topics of interest: What is KVPI? Kuda Vana Partnership International is a US nonprofit supporting family-based care for vulnerable children in Zimbabwe, working to strengthen families and communities so fewer children become vulnerable in the first place. Full picture and the Theory of Change: kudavana.org. Take a culinary tour of Cape Verdean Cuisine As you'll hear in the beginning of the episode, with the recent devastating floods that happened across Accra on June 28th-29th, conversations like this with young people challenging themselves to action and understanding around issues outside of themselves and their comfort zones, give us hope that the future is in good hands. For information on how you can assist those in need here in Accra visit the following: Joy FM Direct Aid Special Guest: Augusta Barlow.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week in our continuing Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate and Green For All, and in 2017 opened the Boogie Down Grind — a hip-hop-themed coffee and craft beer spot, the first commercial "third space" in Hunts Point since the mid-1980s. Her 2022 book, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, argues that communities thrive when they retain talent and investment rather than losing both to brain drain — a line from the book is now quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. This conversation was truly a treat as trip down memory lane to my early career working across the five boroughs in New York City. I have watched an admired Majora’s economic development acuman since visiting Sustainable South Bronx in the early 2000’s as I was getting my start managing and tech-focused industry development project at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. It speaks to the spirit of this BWRE collaboration bringing together Black women in the real estate sector showcasing the personal and professional journeys and highlight how Black women in the industry invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets and so much more. Where to find Majora? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On YouTube What’s Majora reading? All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer Other topics of interest: Hunts Point, Bronx Coro Fellowship The Burning Bronx US Green Building Council Meet Winona Leduke About the White Earth Reservation Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise Podcast Where were America’s Black Wall Streets What is Birch Coffee all about? Cass Gilbert, Architect Bronxlandia Special Guest: Majora Carter.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast, we re-presenting an episode that first posted nearly five years ago in the summer of 2021. At the time, my guest, Elizabeth Ann [Campbell Parks] Rollins-Moskowitz, Liz Campbell for short, was empty nesting and remote grandmothering while diving ever deeper into her art using her Mill Valley, California setting as a constant muse. Today she’s hands on grandmothering, establishing herself in the Nairobi art scene and making new friend across generations. At 87, Grandma Liz continues to be an examplar of what Glocal Citizenship is all about. She relocated to Nairobi--her new muse, to join fellow podcast alum and son, Salim Rollins three years ago, and with a borderless mindset hasn’t looked back. Last weekend she held [her first exhibit in Nairobi]([https://www.instagram.com/p/DZmt2RWOQSA/) and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate this dynamic diasporan! Where to find [Liz]([https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/elizabeth-rollins-moskowitz) and Salim? Special Guest: Elizabeth Rollins-Moskowitz.