We are excited to share with you our fifth guest of #TallawahTalks, Deborah Ahenkorah Osei-Agyekum, Founder of African Bureau Stories and Co-Founder of Accord Literary, whose life’s work has been rooted in giving children across Africa culturally-relevant books to fall in love with. Through her publishing house, African Bureau Stories, she is providing increased opportunities for African writers and illustrators to publish locally and internationally. Additionally, through Ac

Our fourth guest of #TallawahTalks, Miko Underwood, is here! She is the Founder and Lead Designer of OAK & ACORN ~ ONLY FOR THE REBELLES, the first sustainable denim-based brand based in Harlem. Oak & Acorn threads eco-fabrics, historic storytelling & social impact with innovative fashion. In response to witnessing firsthand the harm the chemicals caused the workers in manufacturing facilities across Pakistan and China, and lack of consumer awareness around it, Oak & Acorn’s

We are thrilled to share with our third guest of #TallawahTalks, Noel McKenzie, who is dedicated to solving the diversity deficit for social impact leadership. He is the Executive Director of Represented Foundation, a New York based non-profit social enterprise dedicated to solving the diversity deficit for social impact leadership. Driven to create a better reality for Black and Latinx founders who represent less than 15% of nonprofit CEOs, Noel founded Represented in 2017 a

For our second episode of the inaugural Tallawah Talks series, we are delighted to have been able to sit down with Jessica Santana, a changemaker working to make the tech industry more equitable and inclusive for the next generation of America's workforce. Jessica is the Co-Founder and CEO of America On Tech (AOT), an early pipeline tech talent accelerator creating pathways for over 2,000 underrepresented students into technology and innovation, spanning all five boroughs of

We’ve noticed throughout the years across the social impact and inclusion spaces that there are many different makers whose voices are too often underrepresented and not given the shine they deserve. We want to help change that, and is why we are so excited to announce the launch of Tallawah Talks, a curated series of conversations amplifying the voices of change makers whose work and lived experiences are showing us what it means to have inclusive impact. For our first seaso