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 NYU 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 earlier this spring when our paths crossed again at an event hosted by fellow Glocal Citizen and Director of NYU Accra, Chiké Frankie Edozien - The Labone Dialogues.

Bryonn is a poet, actor, prison activist, playwright, scholar, author, hip hop artist and professor of African American Studies, Theater, Film & Television, and World Arts & Cultures in the School of the Arts and the School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Playing over 40 characters, his one-man show, LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN, won “Best Solo Performance” from the LA Weekly and the NAACP. Executive produced by the late and great, Harry Belafonte, the show tells stories of wrongful incarceration through spoken word poetry, hip hop theater, calypso, comedy and classical music. He founded the Prison Education Program at UCLA in 2015 and in 2019, the program and his performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts were featured on the debut episode of LA Stories, which won an Emmy Award.

His work has been featured on a diverse range of stages including the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater (NYC), National Black Theatre (Harlem), NJ PAC, The Actor’s Gang Theater (Culver City), Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC), Festival de Liege (Belgium), M-1 Theater Festival (Singapore), Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and Muteesa Royal University (Uganda), Rikers Island (New York), Marion Prison (Ohio), TEDX at Ironwood State Prison and Sing Sing Prison.

He has performed at over 250 colleges and prisons in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Where to find Bryonn?
https://www.bryonn.com
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
What’s Bryonn reading?
A Survey of Muhammad Ali Biographies

What’s Bryonn watching?
Converning Violence

What’s Bryonn listening to?
Blues women

Other topics of interest:
What is a Calypsonian
About Veteran Black Panther Jamal Joseph
About Akuse Prison
90’s music roll-call - The Fu-Schnickens, Digital Underground, Tupac Shakur
About Pedro Noguera
About Delroy Lindo
Sinners the film
About Michael A. Jordan

Special Guest: Bryonn Bain.

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 invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets; and how we are offering valuable insight into the business/operational functions in the real estate industry to inspire a spirit of land stewardship. You’ll hear this and more in this week's conversation.

My guest, Nioki Doggett comes to us from the UK by way of her Bajan roots in Barbados. Throughout her career, she’s helped institutional investors across the globe navigate complex real estate markets and find high-conviction opportunities, building the kind of trust that turns one-time conversations into decade-long partnerships. As Lead Business Development and Investor Relations Director for M&G Real Estate's European Platform, she drives capital growth and delivers tailored investment solutions for global institutional investors. Her work sits at the intersection of relationship management, market insight, and strategic advisory.

Beyond her core role, Nioki is actively involved in shaping the broader real estate and investment community as a Committee Member of the INREV DDQ Committee, the Guild of Investment Managers, Ladies in Real Estate. She is a mentor at Chancerygate supporting real estate undergraduates entering the industry, and conference moderator and panel speaker on real estate and investment topics.

Listen and learn more about how her deep expertise in real estate investment dynamics and global investor network spanning multiple markets and geographies are creating value where it counts.

Where to find Nioki?
On LinkedIn
@ Ladies in Real Estate (LiRE)

What’s Nioki watching?
Grey’s Anatomy and other shows by Shonda Rhimes
Apprentice UK
Dragon’s Den

What’s Nioki listening to?
Bruno Mars
Marvin Sapp
Adele
Olivia Dean
Daniel Caesar

Other topics of interest:
About Black Women in Real Estate
About Barbados now and Bajan roots
Reading, Berkshire
Royal Borough of Windsor

Special Guest: Nioki Doggett.

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 growth leader with a foundation in marketing, brand, and communications, her expertise lies in a unique combination of strategic positioning and operational discipline, which she uses to successfully build and scale businesses.

Across the leadership roles she has held at Fincra, she has consistently focused on the intersection of commercial growth, brand, and communications, enhancing Fincra's go-to-market strategies, refining its value proposition, and ensuring scalable systems support business goals.

Today, in her commercial and growth leadership role, she combines that narrative craft with revenue-minded discipline, helping align teams, messaging, and market motion to support sustainable growth. She oversees the management of commercial revenue strategy, strategic partnerships, and market expansion, converting Fincra’s technical capabilities and vision into commercial success.

Her portfolio of experience includes work for organisations such as microfinance fintech Aella, Wild Fusion—Africa's leading integrated marketing communications agencies, The Republic Agency, Oando PLC, Lafarge Africa, UBA, Chivita 100%, and more, with responsibilities spanning digital strategy, content development, campaign execution, community management, growth and PR.

When she’s not wearing the commercial or growth hat, Jemima dedicates her time to podcasting.

Where to find Jemima?
@The Shrine Podcast
On LinkedIn
On Instagram

What’s Jemima reading?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

What’s Jemima watching?
The Mentalist

Other topics of interest:
Ekiti State, Nigeria
City of Leeds, UK
Discover Halifax, UK
#EndSARS
About the UK’s Global Talent Visa Programme
What is an API?
Central Bank of Nigeria - CBN

Special Guest: Jemima Lewis.