Digital Creator, Podcast Host and Producer
Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot, PhD
About Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness
This podcast highlights the personal and professional journeys African descendants take daily as they navigate the world around them. Episodes feature topics and conversations with guests (award-winning documentarians and artists, academics, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and influencers) that are timely and intelligent while still being funny and cool.
Recognitions: Nominated for the 2023 Podcaster of the Year from Black Podcasting Awards
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Episodes
Season 5
Episode 046: with Yusef Larney, co-owner and restaurateur of the famous “Kombius” on being Coloured in Bo-Kaap, South Africa, establishing the restaurant, and its legacy today
Episode 045: with Tessa Dooms, South African political analyst and author, Coloured: How Classification became Culture with journalist Lynsey Chutel
Episode 044: with Antoinette Sithole & the Legacy of the Hector Pieterson Museum, SOWETO South Africa
Episode 043: with (Un)Known Project, co-founders Hannah Drake & Josh Miller
Episode 042: with Terysa Ridgeway, computer scientist and children’s book author, “Terysa Solves It”
Episode 041: with Nadege Green, journalist, historian and founder of Black Miami Dade digital platform
Episode 040: with Rob Marriott, award-winning Hip Hop journalist, producer and artist
Episode 039: with Sheena Collier, a Black people-convener, founder and CEO of Boston While Black
Season 5 Podcast Announcement
Season 4
Special Topic- Episode 038: “Summertime Rest, Refresh & Reimagining” (Season 4 finale)
Episode 037: with Tiffani Johnson, nationally-recognized pediatric physician scientist and health equity thought-leader
Episode 036: with Malik Yoba, Hollywood veteran actor, entrepreneur and founder of Yoba Development
Episode 035: with Colette Phillips, PR and marketing maven, DEI pioneer, author and founder of Get Konnected!
Episode 034: with Bernard Harris, retired NASA Astronaut Trailblazer as the first African American to walk in space
Episode 033: with Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Professor of African American Studies and Visual Studies, and author of New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair
Episode 032: with Javaka Steptoe, artist and nationally-renowned children’s book illustrator for Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall
Episode 031: with Ruth E. Carter, 2x Academy Award-winning costume designer for Black Panther/Wakanda Forever franchise and author
Episode 030: with Charity C. Elder, award-winning journalist, producer and author of Power: The Rise of Black Women in America
Episode 029: with Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, renowned scholar and founder of the Tengo Sed Writers Retreats (Costa Rica) and historical fiction author of Finding La Negrita
Season 4 Podcast Announcement
Season 3
Episode 028: with Desiree Gordon, social justice investment and cultural strategist, and musician
Special Topic- Episode 027: “Trusting the Process” (Commemorating the month of May as National Mental Health Awareness)
Episode 026: with Regine Jean-Charles, Professor of English and Africana studies and author of Martin Luther King and the Trumpet of Conscience
Episode 025: with Yvonne Blake, legacy owner of Hakim’s Bookstore, the oldest operating Black-owned bookstore in the US
Episode 024: with Kevin Adonis Browne, photographer, archivist and author High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture
Episode 023: with Shameek Cook, actor, producer and professional screenwriter
Episode 022: with Amanda Bates, podcaster, blogger and founder of The Black Expat
Episode 021: with The Black Farmers Collective, food systems activists Ray C. Williams and James King, Jr.
Episode 020: with Janell Hobson, educator and cultural critic for Ms. Magazine and author of When God Lost Her Tongue
Episode 019: with Mahogany L. Browne, internationally-recognized performance poet, activist and inaugural Lincoln Center Poet-in-Residence
Season 3 Podcast Announcement
Season 2
Episode 018: with Anton Nimblett, acclaimed writer, poet and author of Sections of an Orange and Now/After
Episode 017: with Moya Z. Bailey, critical race and feminist scholar, and author of #HashtagActivism and Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
Episode 016: with Kinitra D. Brooks, scholar and cultural critic as co-editor of the Lemonade Reader, blogger on the Root.com’s for HBO’s Lovecraft Country, and author of Searching for Sycorax
Episode 015: with Tonya Hegamin, artist, disabilities activist, and award-winning author of Willow, Most Loved In All the World, M + O 4Ever, and Pemba’s Song
Episode 014: with Chef Keesha O’Galdez, Gourmet Diva and the Food Network’s Chopped (finalist)
Episode 013: with Vilna Bashi Treitler, artist, scholar, and American Sociological Association’s recipient of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier award for scholarship in service to social justice.
Episode 012: with Natalie LeBlanc, research scientist and public health practitioner in HIV Prevention Science globally
Episode 011: with Christen Smith, scholar-activist, author and founder of #CiteBlackWomen
Episode 010: with Glory Edim, author, convener and founder of #Well-Read Black Girl
Season 2 Podcast Announcement
Season 1
Ep 009: with Victorious DeCosta, film producer and documentarian for Storm Over Brooklyn: The Yusuf Hawkins Story and Digging for Weldon Irvine
Special Episode: #UPRISINGS2020 Part 2, Global Perspectives: with Masauko Chipembere (Malawi/ South Africa), Desiree Gordon (Antigua), Natasha Gordon-Chipembere (Costa Rica) and Javier Wallace (Panama) (YouTube Video Release)
Special Episode: #UPRISINGS2020 Part 1: with Vilna Bashi Treitler, Lorenzo Boyd and Courtney Desiree Morris (YouTube Video Release)
Ep 008: with Courtney Desiree Morris, renowned visual/conceptual artist and writer
Ep 007: with Chef Michael Poole, owner of Hot Chocolat Artisan Chocolates
Ep 006: with Kathryn Sophia Belle, author, philosopher and founder of La Belle Vie Coaching
Ep 005: with Alicia Anabel Santos, La Santera (Part 2)
Ep 004: with Alicia Anabel Santos, La Santera spiritual priestess and author (Part 1)
Ep 003: with Michele Simms-Burton, short-story author, editor and photographer on Black life
Ep 002: with Masauko Chipembere (Part 2)
Ep 001: with Masauko Chipembere (Part 1), Malawian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist producer and engineer
Podcast Premiere Announcement (Season 1)
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