Glocal Citizens

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--s...

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...

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...

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 drafti...

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 drafti...

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...

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 f...

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 wor...

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...

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 conversa...

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...

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, b...

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 N...

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 , argue...

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 han...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week, Chef Mawuli Dzansi allows us the honor of being his first podcast appearance. And we definitely count that as a win with this rising start in the Ghana food movement. Rooted deeply in his Ghanaian heritage, his passion for food grew as he explored flavors, techniques, and ingredients he discovered while living with his Aunt in Accra. Chef Mawuli’s expertise is...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we have an encore episode inspired by the many pitch decks that I’ve been reviewing from companies based in Egypt as part of my Dream VC Investor Accelerator Fellowship . Back in 2020, while we were still in the thick of the pandemic, I connected with Samir Abbass . I connect with my guest, Samir Abbass , while he was studying in Spain and when tours of any kin...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! Exiting news…according to the Million Podcasts database platform We’re ranked #25 among change agent podcast thanks to listeners like you! In this week’s change agent conversation we’re visiting with Odile Tevie, co-founder and director of Nubuke Foundation , a visual arts and cultural institution, based in Accra and Wa in Ghana. In the early 2000’s she set up and ran th...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week we commemorate Africa Day across the African Diaspora. Reflecting on the journeys of liberation that Black people have endured in trial and triumph, I am ever reminded that those that laid the groundwork will never in my heart, mind or acts have done so in vain. As the pillars of imperialism are finally weakening--though, not without reverting to its tried and...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast I’m back in Accra, back on the Continent, just in time to commemorate African Liberation Day--Africa Day 2026. Last year around this time, my guest and I were preparing for our respective sessions at AfroTalks 2025 @ University of Ghana-Legon where we shared stories and proposed solutions centering the theme "HOW?" aimed at fostering critical int...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast it’s an NYU affair with a side of Columbia University, Harvard University and UCLA. I first met my guest as fellow New York University students/alumni in the late 1990’s, at a time when slam poetry was beginning to reaching global audiences with influences from hip hop music and other activist movements. Fast foward after more than 20 years to ea...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another installment of Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate collaboration-- Borderless Building . Throughout the year, we’re hosting conversations with BWRE members showcasing the personal and professional journeys of Black women in the real estate industry across tthe global. We’re highlighting how Black women in the industry inv...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s conversation with Adedayo Jemima Lewis, Senior VP Commercial & Growth at Fincra , offers great insights into process and realities of realizing your passion in a new local. From applying and receiving a Global Talent Visa to sharpening her impact-driven career lens, Jemima is one to watch, particularly in the African Fintech space. As a commercial and gro...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast community builidng is a central theme. For twenty years, my guest, Bakajika Tshinanga, has operated at the exact intersection where culture generates economic value. His journey started in 2004, when he founded a student-led program at the University of Georgia Atlanta. Georgia Daze still runs today and has improved enrollment yield conservativel...

Greetings Glocal Citizens! I’m sure many of you remember the groundbreaking web series An African City . We’ve even hosted a panel featuring creator of the series Nicole Amarteifio in our writing as activism series. My guest this week launched her creative career as a cast member on the series and she hasn’t looked back since. Maame Adjei is a Ghanaian storyteller, producer, director, entrepreneur...