August 18, 2025

Episode 113 This is the best time to go vegan with Naijha Wright-Brown

56 minutes

Today, I am joined by Naijha Wright-Brown. Naijha is a 2021 Baltimore Business Journal Enterprising Women of Excellence Honoree. A native New Yorker, raised in the South Bronx, Naijha is a people person and loves to make connections. She was introduced to gardening, farming, environmentalism, sustainability, and the basics of eating healthy while spending summers in Massachusetts as a teenager. Naijha has an MBA in Business from the University of Phoenix and is a successful serial entrepreneur. The thought of owning a restaurant never crossed her mind until she relocated to Baltimore in 2005 and met her fellow Verizon Wireless co-worker, now husband, Gregory Brown.

Naijha is a partner and the Marketing Director for The Land of Kush, VeganSoul Bistro, and co-creator of Vegan Soulfest and Maryland Vegan Restaurant Week. She is the Executive Director of the Black Veg Society, a non-profit organization whose mission is mission is to educate predominantly Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, on the benefits of holistic living, the plant-based diet, and veganism. Naijha, also, has a digital talk show, Naijha Speaks, that helps people on a mission to find their vegan soul!

To connect with Naijha:

https://www.mdveganeats.com/ for Maryland Restaurant month

https://landofkush.com/

https://www.vegansoulfest.com/

https://blackvegsociety.org/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/thelandofkush/

https://www.instagram.com/blackvegsociety/

https://www.instagram.com/vegansoulfest/

To connect with me:

Follow me on Facebook and Instagram @didyoubringthehummus

For more info on my Public Speaking 101 program: ⁠https://www.didyoubringthehummus.com/publicspeakingforactivists⁠