Posts in Start-Ups
Libraries = StartUp Offices for the Poor


If you haven't heard already, Shared Work Spaces are all the rage. They're also all the expensive (sic). Rates average about $200/monthly. For the nonprofit/startup on the budget, that's too much sauce. So there are other options. Coffee shops are one. In my very unscientific research, they average about $10-20/daily - since they insist on you buying something while there.

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Weeds of Division in a Garden of Unity

Our political reality is sad and outrageous and the source of its current corrupted state of affairs isn’t something we can offload onto others. I’m convinced that our current civil conflict falls in the lineage of spiritual battles that pits a fearful, shrinking heart against a courageous, expansive love.

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A Total Stranger Paid for My Hotel in Chicago | SOTD: The Kindness of Others

A total stranger paid for my hotel room in Chicago. Literally just b/c he overheard me trying to figure out wtf do while stranded on an overnight trip back to NYC. It's a long story from a 3 day trek from St. Louis to NYC,  right in time for New Year's Eve. And in all that adventure, I learned a pretty dope lesson about the kindness of others. I also slept through most of New Year's Day.

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HOW I MET HIP HOP'S NO. 1 CHEF | THE NOTICE BLOG | EPISODE 3

Episode 3: Hood Chef Sometimes the journey makes the story, and that's definitely how i felt when thinking about how I met Hood Chef. In fact, his story shows a perfect example of how local communities can create their own cultural capital. 

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Throwback Thursdays: Meet the Producers of You Can't Die Here

#ThrowbackThursday Wanna know how it all started? The very first major film production I've done came after the murder of #MikeBrown. He grew up in the same part of town as me. He was the same age as my little brother - it just hit too close to home for me not to do something. So I did. Here's one of the first videos I did to announce "You Can't Die Here." It was a webseries that focused on exploring the issues surround police violence. 

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THESE WOMEN TURNED A PRISON INTO NEW YORK'S 1ST WOMEN'S BUILDING | MINISODES | 09.25.16