GigRoots Podcast | Tiffany Williams Interview | Chicago, IL Introduction: Tiffany Williams runs her own catering company, Exquisite Catering. Like many entrepreneurs, Tiffany’s livelihood took…

GigRoots Podcast | Nancy Quero Interview | Grand Rapids, MI Introduction: Grand Rapids has about a 16% Latinx population, but that doesn’t begin to capture…

GigRoots Podcast | Lisa Marsh Interview | Chicago, IL | Introduction: In this episode, I talk with Lisa Marsh from Chicago, Illinois. Her baked goods…

  Welcoming Cleveland | GigRoots Podcast Welcoming America Series, pt. 4 Are Immigrants the Secret Weapon to Advancing Black Achievement in America? And Cleveland, OH…

Welcoming Sioux City | GigRoots Podcast Welcoming America Series pt. 3 Protests Made Their Way to Many Quiet, Midwestern Towns. But There’s A Continued Disconnect…

Welcoming Twin Falls | GigRoots Podcast Welcoming America Series, pt. 2   Twins Falls, Idaho Is Growing Thanks to Latinx Surge. But It’s Hard Work…

Welcoming St. Louis | GigRoots Podcast Welcoming America Series, pt. 1 The St. Louis Mosaic Project Wants to Draw More Immigrants To Help The City…

Welcome to Season 3! Immigrants Mean Business. But What Happens If New Americans Are No Longer Welcome? Immigrants make up roughly 1-in-4 of the business…

Cultivating love for black hair across multiple generations—that’s hopefully a positive sign of things to come. If popular media is any indication, promoting self-acceptance of…

During this episode, we’re heading south to Greenville, South Carolina. If you hop on I-85 it would take you slightly less than two hours to…

Something that we don’t often think about in our day to day is what we would do during an emergency.  Let’s suppose for a moment…

This episode, we’re in Flint Michigan. It’s situated about an hour outside of Detroit—the Motor City. We all know about the economic downturn of the…