Presenting a Podcasting Panel @ Queer Hustle 2019

I put together a panel on podcasting for the Queer Hustle conference taking place in NYC April 26th – 28th 2019.
My panel will be on Sunday April 28th at 3:30pm. You can get tickets here.

I invited Jocelyn K. Glei, Bailey Richardson and Eboné Bell to join me to talk about the amazing work they are doing and how they are using podcasts to elevate their work.

Read more about them below!

Jocelyn K. Glei is obsessed with how we can find more creativity and meaning in our daily work. She created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and hosts Hurry Slowly, a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. Jocelyn has published numerous books for creative folks, including Manage Your Day-to-Day, Make Your Mark, and Unsubscribe. Previously, she was the founding editor of the Webby Award-winning 99u.com website and director of the 99U Conference. She lives in Brooklyn with an introverted dog and an extroverted cat.

Bailey Richardson has spent the last 5 years studying people who have built rich, thriving communities.With her partners at People & Company, their mission is to help people bring their people together. They interview extraordinary organizers on their new podcast  “The Get-Together” and will publish a book this summer on how to build a community today. Before People & Company, Bailey shaped the early community at Instagram, where she was the 8th employee. She has also worked at IDEO, StoryCorps, Pop-Up Magazine and the California Sunday Magazine.

Eboné F. Bell is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tagg Magazine and Tagg Communication. After seeing a lack of queer women represented in local publications (around DMV), she decided to start a magazine and website to tell our stories, provide resources and create events. Before starting Tagg, in 2002 she founded the first group for queer people of color called True Colors of Maryland (TCOM) at University of Maryland College Park. The group is still thriving today and meet weekly. After college, she immediately immersed herself in the Washington Metropolitan Area LGBTQ community for several years. Eboné has produced such events as the annual Capital Queer Prom giving the older LGBTQ community a second-chance prom, Capital Pride Women’s Events, Pride in the Sky, and the Put on the Gloves Fashion Show benefitting The Trevor Project. These events have raised over $20,000 for LGBTQ non-profit organizations. Tagg Magazine has been around for over six years, telling thousands of stories, creating safe-spaces for  queer women, and providing important resources for the LGBTQ community. Over the past three years, Tagg Magazine as been named “Top 25 LGBTQ-Owned Companies” by the Washington Business Journal. Last year, Eboné founded the Tagg Scholarship Fund—a scholarship created specifically for young queer woman of color who can’t afford to attend school. After realizing that only 23% of Black LGBTQ college students graduate, she wanted to make a difference within marginalized communities. While running Tagg, she still manages to lend her time to volunteer efforts in the Washington, D.C. area. Last year she served as the Table Captain Co-Chair for the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner. Also, she has served on the board of the Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber, creating the first women’s networking series in Washington, DC. Tagg also continues to promote and support such organizations as SMYAL and The Point Foundation focusing on LGBTQ youth. Eboné has expanded Tagg through podcasting: Tagg Nation, a podcast for everything lesbian, queer, and under the rainbow. The three host, weekly podcast show dives into pop culture, politics, stories, LGBTQ educational issues, and queer history.

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Creative funding: finding, choosing, billing, and getting paid.

 
On Thursday, July 18th 2013, I was a guest on Heritage Radio’s After the Jump program which is hosted by Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney. On the show we talked about being paid what you’re worth, ways to fund creative projects, the role gender plays when it comes to doing work for free and overall the struggle of making a living as a content producer. I really enjoy talking about these topics with Grace because she has been running Design*Sponge for about 10 years and has seen the blogging industry go through various phases.

You can listen to the interview on iTunes or stream it on Heritage Radio. Please feel free to chime in on the conversation by leaving a comment over at Design*Sponge.

Also, I was super stoked that 99u (one of my favorite blogs) tweeted about the interview!