Michelle Garcia, the newly hired editor of NBCBLK and a veteran journalist, joins Brian to talk about professional reinvention, how journalists should be covering protest movements like Black Lives Matter, scrapbooking and more.

You read that last part right. There’s a whole racial reckoning happening in the scrapbooking world, and Michelle spills all the tea.

Michelle, who first joined Brian in 2016 (remember when that was the worst year ever?), talks about the challenges of starting a new job while still working from home, what it was like to get laid off from Vice in May, and how that happening during the pandemic may have been for the best. Michelle discusses the importance of building a wide professional network before you need it as well as the importance of writers approaching stories with curiosity.

And yeah. Scrapbooking.

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Episode 11: You May Know Her From the Library with Michelle Garcia

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