NICOLE AMARTEIFIO

A Ghanaian-American, Nicole Amarteifio had a successful career in international development working on African government policies. She shifted gears and created a web series featuring young African returnees. It hit a million views within the first several weeks of its release. Hollywood wants her now, and she has a movie coming out.

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Nneka Elliott is last season’s TV news reporter who quit CP24 (Toronto) and started her own lifestyle show for the Caribbean diaspora. She talks about one thing she regrets from her old life in TV.

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Rachel Giese is a writer and editor-at-large Chatelaine magazine who guest hosts on CBC Radio shows like Day 6 and q. She also has an upcoming book on boyhood and masculinity. We talk about her book, who gets hired in Canadian media and how some of the industry's decision-makers think. Reference for this episode: Robert Jago on his work at The Walrus: https://twitter.com/rjjago/status/868201063912013827 On cultural appropriation: https://thewalrus.ca/on-cultural-appropriation-canadians-are-hypocrites/ Thread where Robert Jago explains that Jon Kay (of The Walrus) asked him to write the piece before Jon Kay quit https://twitter.com/rjjago/status/865339033068687360

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It’s former Canada editor at The FADER Anupa Mistry again. Now she's in New York working as creative producer of original content at Vevo. I called to see how she’s doing.

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It's the first Media Girlfriends check-in conversation. Host and producer Garvia Bailey talks about why she was in tears before interviewing novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Nana aba whines about moving house and the first few weeks of her new job. Keep up with Garvia on twitter @garveyschild.

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Lorraine Chuen made a comic called "Sometimes Love Is Quiet, Sometimes It's Not There At All", about growing up Chinese-Canadian in a small town. She is also the co-founder of Intersectional Analyst, a blog that looks at diversity issues through infographics and data visualizations.

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Digital content producer Sajae Elder is co-host of Gyalcast, a podcast hosted by a crew of black women from Toronto who make space for honest conversation and a perspective they haven't seen anywhere else. Sajae talks about Gyalcast's organic origin and how she didn't quite realize her work on the podcast makes her its producer.

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Hadiya Roderique is a lawyer, Walrus-Massey fellow and host on the Canadaland Commons podcast. She wasn't getting the same hits as her white girlfriends on OkCupid so she experimented with her profile picture to see what would happen. She wrote about the results for Walrus magazine.

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Bee Quammie started her career in healthcare. Now she's a freelance writer and a contributor to CBC TV's the National. In February she told the country we should get rid of Black History Month.

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After working for over 10 years at CTV, CP24, and The Weather Network, Nneka Elliott quit her job. Now she's getting her life together.

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Hannah Sung is a video producer and co-creator of Colour Code, The Globe and Mail's podcast about race, with Denise Balkissoon. It was named one of iTunes' best podcasts of 2016. Hannah talks about the pressure of working on the podcast, being 'the Asian VJ', and the appropriateness of the yellow-face emoji.

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