History is our blueprint to the future. 

Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa joins The Sustainable Artist to make the case that knowing our past is the only real way to build forward. Dr. Rosa is a Historian and Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University, specializing in Afro-Latin American and Black Atlantic history. 

Her scholarship has appeared in Caribbean Quarterly, The Journal of African American History, Slavery & Abolition, and The Black Scholar, and her JAAH article won the 2024 Letitia Woods Article of the Year Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. 

In this first episode if TSA's Season 2, she talks about being an unconventional figure in her space, why new technology (ahem, AI) doesn't actually preserve knowledge the way we assume it does, how she almost didn't make it into college — and what all of it taught her about who gets to write the record.

Oh and we're outside! In the second half you'll learn all about vertical farming from Director Dan Hubel of Farm.One -- an amazing indoor farm, brewery, cocktail bar and event space in Brooklyn, New York. 

If you like this content and want to build a sustainable future together, please be sure to like, rate and subscribe!!

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margaritalilarosa/?hl=en

Website: https://drmargaritarosa.com/

Visit Farm.One at: https://farm.one/

Thank you to our team: 

Co-producer: Hunter Speese 

Production/Direction: Brandon Hugo Arroyo

And a big thank you to Farm.One!! 

About The Sustainable Artist:

Hosted by Carolina Alduey, we explore the intersection of creativity, career, sustainability, and social justice – and how they all interconnect. Our episodes feature thought leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs who are building new futures by redefining success, creativity, and environmental responsibility in their industries.

In this episode of The Sustainable Artist, I sit down with my dear friend and colleague Davina Coard-Martoral, Principal Media Relations Strategist at DavellePR, to talk about what it really takes to build visibility as a small business or creative — especially on a limited budget and as a person of color navigating an industry that wasn't built with us in mind.

With over 20 years in PR (including roles at MWW, Ketchum, and 1-800-FLOWERS.com before co-founding DavellePR in 2009), Davina has helped clients grow their share of voice by over 500% year-over-year and has placed stories everywhere from The Today Show and CNN to Forbes, Essence, and The New York Times. We dig into practical strategies for getting media attention without a massive budget, why representation and access matter in PR, and how she and her team are reimagining what support for underrepresented founders and storytellers can look like during this transitional moment.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, artist, or creative trying to get your work seen and heard, this conversation is full of real, actionable insight.

#TheSustainableArtist #PublicRelations #PRTips #BlackOwnedBusiness #SmallBusinessPR #mediarelations 

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About The Sustainable Artist:

A podcast hosted by Carolina Alduey – an entertainment professional with over 20 years in talent management and public relations. Each week we explore the intersection of creativity, career, sustainability, and politics – and how they all interconnect. Our episodes feature thought leaders, entertainment executives, artists, and entrepreneurs who are building new futures by redefining success, creativity, and environmental responsibility in their industries.

Our episodes are recorded live at Six + One Studios. Six + One is a mission driven creative powerhouse rooted in the ethos of “Disruption for Good.” They are a full service creative agency and production studio based in Soho, New York. Thank you Six + One!

Çiğdem Öztabak is a journalist and media-communications consultant who's spent the last decade covering technology at the intersection of media, tech, and the human story — writing for outlets including CNN Türkiye and Aposto, the Istanbul-based digital media company known for its curated newsletters and journalism. Before this, she created and hosted a chart-topping children's science podcast about the natural world, animals, and conservation.

In this episode, Çiğdem and I dig into Humanarium, her project exploring how humans can stay connected to each other in a moment when AI is evolving faster than our ability to regulate it. We talk about the wave of AI scientists who've walked away from the field, what that exodus signals about where this technology is headed, and what's genuinely at stake for humanity if we don't get intentional about using our soft skills — the very things that make us human in the first place.

#TheSustainableArtist #Humanarium #CigdemOztabak #AI #Tech #Humanity #Sustainable 

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Fabrizio Copano is one of the most celebrated comedians in Latin America — the first South American comic to shoot an original Netflix special — and tours globally, selling out across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. He's appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden, performed on CBS' The Talk, and is a proud paid regular at the world-famous Comedy Cellar. Fabrizio is currently developing a television series with Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions. His debut English-language special From the Future, released by 800 Pound Gorilla, is now streaming on YouTube.

In this episode, Fabrizio gets real about what the artist's lifestyle actually looks like up close — what's sustainable and what isn't — shares his personal experience with his friend and former Chilean president Gabriel Boric and what socialism looks like from the inside, and gives his unfiltered takes on politics and comedy across the U.S. and Latin America.

#TheSustainableArtist​ #FabrizioCopano #comedy #artists #Chile #Latino #Latinx #sustainable

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Gala Magriñá started her career designing for major brands like Lacoste, Diesel, and Calvin Klein and orchestrating high-profile events for clients like Jimmy Choo, Harper’s Bazaar and Maison Martin Margiela. She started tapping into her spirituality and noticed something crucial was missing. In 2016, she embraced meditation and realized that the spaces we inhabit have a profound effect on our mind, body, and spirit. Now, as an award-winning holistic interior designer, she merges the beautiful with the mindful to create spaces that actually transform people's lives.

In this episode, we talk about her journey from high-pressure event production to permanent interiors, why luxury and supportive design doesn't have to be expensive, and the spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental impact our spaces have on us. Gala breaks down what we should focus on when designing any space—whether it's a home, office, or retail store—and how creating mindful environments elevates not just individual consciousness, but the collective. Her mission? To change the world one space at a time. This conversation will shift how you see the room you're sitting in right now.

#TheSustainableArtist​ #GalaMagrina #healing #design #spaces #sustainable

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Podcast:  https://galamagrinadesign.com/beyond-spaces-podcast/

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In this episode, I sit down with Hasani Reyes, an Intuitive Guide and Shamanic Energy Healer who helps people reconnect with their soul after a lifetime of living up to everyone else's expectations.

Hasani's story is powerful — at the peak of her corporate fashion career leading creative teams across the country, an unexpected health crisis forced her to completely reimagine her life. That traumatic moment became her calling, unlocking her intuitive gifts and reconnecting her to ancestral spiritual wisdom.

Now, Hasani blends ancient Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean rituals, Shamanic Energy Healing, and Holistic Mindset Coaching to guide clients back to themselves — helping them live in alignment with mind, body, and soul.

We talk about what the multi-billion dollar wellness industry is missing, why first-generation cycle breakers need a different approach to healing, the indigenous medicine we've forgotten, and what a healed world could actually look like.

This conversation is for anyone who's ever felt like success came at the cost of their soul.

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Angelo Colina, a Venezuelan comedian who's carved out an entirely unique lane in stand-up — performing exclusively in Spanish. Starting in New York City, Angelo has sold out shows across 30+ states, Latin America, and Europe. We go deep in this conversation — talking about his journey from Venezuela to becoming one of the first Spanish-language headliners at the New York Comedy Festival (2023 & 2024), Netflix Is A Joke Festival, and the 321 Comedy Festival. We also dive into his reflections on life in Venezuela and his personal take on the recent ousting of dictator Maduro in Venezuela. 

This was an exciting, deeply personal conversation I'm honored to share.

Mercedes White knows something most people miss: a sustainable arts future doesn't start with adults — it starts with children. As Head of Theater at Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) and a SAG-AFTRA actress whose work spans HBO's Somebody Somewhere to her Off-Broadway play GENESIS: A Prequel to A Raisin in the Sun, Mercedes is on the front lines of transforming who gets to be an artist. She's reimagining how we teach the classics, making Shakespeare culturally responsive and relevant to modern issues like inequity and belonging, and proving that when Black and Brown kids see themselves reflected in the canon, everything shifts. In this episode, we discuss why early arts access is foundational. Why representation in arts education is a justice issue. And why, if we're serious about building a creative ecosystem that actually sustains itself, we have to start by opening the doors to every child.

John Fullerton walked away from a 20-year Wall Street career with no plan, just questions. Then 9/11 happened. The questions crystallized into his life's work: proving that our current economic system isn't just flawed — it's fundamentally unsustainable. And it will never work until we stop treating nature as a resource to extract and start integrating life itself into how we value, produce, and exchange. John discusses the revolutionary ideas in his latest book, Regenerative Economics, and why reimagining our economy is the most urgent creative work of our time.

Welcome to The Sustainable Artist Podcast!! 

Looks like the world is on fire and we need to know how we got here to know what we must do to get out. 

On our first episode we interview Maren Costa. Maren is a workers’ rights advocate, climate justice leader, tech organizer and keynote speaker known for challenging corporate power to drive systemic change. 

She worked as Amazon’s first Principal User Experience Designer, met regularly with Jeff Bezos, championed human-centered design, and earned 16 patents. Frustrated by Amazon’s inaction on climate, she co-founded Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), helping secure major wins like Amazon’s Climate Pledge and the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund. 

Featured in the Emmy Award-Winning Netflix documentary Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, Maren speaks candidly about her experience in Big Tech mobilizing workers for bold climate action—work she continues today as Board President of AECJ and U.S. Advisor to WorkForClimate.org. A sought-after speaker and lifelong advocate for equity, Maren brings deep insight into the intersections of Big Tech, politics, climate, and inequality. She believes real solutions must confront the roots of injustice—and that organized worker power is essential to achieving radical systems change.