I currently host Startup CPG podcast, a community for emerging brands, where I amplify the diverse stories behind some of today's youngest CPG brands.
I am the founder of Merida Consulting, a certified Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business.
A former broadcast journalist, brand marketer, agency hustler and multicultural strategist, my unique professional journey shaped my philosophy and approach to diversity-of thought and inclusion. I founded Merida Consulting in 2018 as means to address the systemic issues I experienced first-hand in workplace culture and creative brand work. My mission is to advocate for a system of accountability that pushes media, marketers, and employers past default narratives. I have a passion for increasing representation of diverse voices in storytelling, brand creative and media. My advocacy runs deep for marginalized groups, working caregivers and mothers.
Believing in intentionality, I named the company after the city where I fell in love with my husband - Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
This website is a growing directory of people of color who work in audio around the world. You’ll find editors, hosts, writers, producers, sound designers, engineers, project managers, musicians, reporters, and content strategists with varied experience from within the industry and in related fields.
It’s both a place for employers to find POC candidates, and a place where POC can find each other for meetups, collaborations, advice and so on, which means that not everyone you’ll see on here is actively looking for a job.
To our POC family: we see you and we stand with you. Let’s continue to support each other.
If you’re an employer, we need to talk.
*clears throat*
While recruiting diverse candidates is a great first step, it’s not going to be enough if we want the industry to look and sound meaningfully different in the future. Let us be clear: this isn’t about numbers alone. This is about getting the respect that people of color—and people of different faiths, abilities, ages, socioeconomic statuses, educational backgrounds, gender identities, and sexual orientation—deserve. So before you get started, here are the Terms of Service:
I will pay employees a living wage.
I will consider the ways in which my workspace might be hostile to people of color and find concrete ways to support their contributions and wellbeing.
I will continually reflect on how my networks, taste, curiosity, comfort and values are shaped by my race, class, gender, where I grew up, the media I consume, and the fact that we live in a white supremacist culture. This takes time. It will require vulnerability, and a commitment to ongoing learning.
I understand that this directory is not ZipRecruiter, and that expanding my hiring practices requires that I dedicate some time to engaging with potential candidates in a deeper way than simply scanning their years of industry experience.
If you are unable to commit to these terms, please click “I do not accept.”