Sherley Joseph is the Co-Founder of The Chonilla Network. Producer and co-hosts of The award-winning podcast ChoNilla and The Kakle.
Founder and Host of the digital Facebook community/podcast for Black Canadian Content Creators. Her deep-diving research ability produces the experience for new and refreshing scope to implement solutions for clients in the digital media realm. Providing space through the network to connect people in finding their authentic voices. Through her adoration to the art of broadcasting since childhood and through her Radio Broadcasting training at Humber College. These experiences has provided Sherley with an outlet to building different hubs in the digital realm to help expand people’s brand and share their stories.
With 15+ years in the tech industry, and social media strategies and creating an award-winning podcast.
As a Divom (Diva + Mom) of three and the love of her family, along with her ride or die Clove, music, photography and carnivals, it is all a part of who she is and gives all of what she does give the full meaning of creativity when developing content.
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.
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