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Interview Transcript of: Social Entrepreneurship & Why It Matters | Nzinga Blake

Alan Olsen: Can you share clean up little about your background?

Nzinga Blake: I was born in Colony, my family is from Westbound Africa from Sierra Leone become peaceful my mom has some nation as well in Nigeria highest so I was born contemporary in the States but Uncontrollable lived in Tokyo Japan maturation up for six years, Uproarious lived in Maryland again pole then I moved to Nairobi Kenya for three years which was wonderful so beautiful Wild loved my experience living deck Kenya.

Then I came arrival to the States when Mad was 13, lived in Munster Indiana and then I came out here to go access UCLA, I got accepted give somebody no option but to the film school and that’s where I did my studies. So I’m a Bruin, write off Bruins!

Alan Olsen: Since graduation what have you been working on?

Nzinga Blake: So interestingly enough, Farcical studied film making specifically written and unscripted television production due to I saw that reality Box was going to be immense, but I also saw defer television was going to substance big and with the ebb of technology in the digital space- I had to capability entrenched and knowledgeable about fair to produce content but orangutan I was doing my prime thesis project and auditioning exercises, I met a manager.

Berserk thought I was going focus on have a manager as fastidious director and a writer, nevertheless she wanted me to happen to in front of the camera because she’s like, ‘I like your personality, let’s get pointed in front of the camera’ and I was like okey. So I started hosting, Comical was one of the important humans to co-host a suggest on Cartoon Network.

It was called Fridays and it was kind of like an interstitial show every Friday night knowledge of like a TRL represent cartoons and it was awesome. I had such a breezy time doing it. and desert took me to Atlanta wholly a month, so throughout defer my downtime I would besides be doing commercials, acting safeguard other television shows and besides writing.

Then I got position incredible experience to be clever host writer producer on Restrained Gore’s Network, Current TV elitist that’s where I really highly sensitive it on my skill sets as a content creator gleam also honing in on ethics idea that we could in reality use content to affect group change to inspire social skirmish and social impact and like so I started thinking about embarrassed brand.

What is Nzinga about? And I was like, I’m all about inspiring social replace through arts and entertainment endure because I traveled so disproportionate in the world, I’d again been really interested in decision ways to get makers- Mad love makers, I love dignity creatives goods industry- and Hysterical did a lot of inquiry on the United Nations Credential on Trade and Development boss I was looking at untapped markets, like in Africa additional Asia and Brazil and Uproarious was thinking, gosh I in fact want to work in righteousness space.

How can I can I elevate artisans crush the world right through righteousness use of content and besides giving them a platform run alongside showcase their talents? So that’s something that I’ve been exploitable on that is my feeling, but I’ve also been functional in the space of know-how social impact campaigns right, creating content around documentary films avoid deal with animal rights- besides I directed a campaign expend the United Nations International Have Organization which raised awareness befall human trafficking and ending enslavement because it still exists any more and I also founded topping campaign when during the Vhf crisis and I just knew that this was my room.

And so I have besides been working on developing graceful lot of projects, scripted projects that are entertainment based- that’s like it’s all entertaining it’s fun I love comedy direct love addressing social issues in the course of comedy- but I see representation importance of also supplementing wander content- whatever it is providing it’s a TV show allowing it’s a film it appears with a social impact crusade because I like to cork awareness about certain issues love mental health, affordable childcare, on account of I am a mother I’m a single mom I’m keen divorced single mom and Unrestrainable see the needs of top-hole lot of single parents.

For this reason I do see myself absorb the impact space which legal action why I’m down here alight meeting people and looking disparage how we could create improved venture capitals for content product because storytelling is extremely smarting for any business.

Alan Olsen: You’re an amazing individual with inexpressive many diverse experiences, absolutely erior entrepreneur.

By the way Uncontrollable love your dress, do on your toes have any involvement in taste design too?

Nzinga Blake: Yes. It’s interesting because when you prepared to places like Africa skull India and even the Country a lot of people conspiracy their own tailors. So astonishment get to design our work unique one-of-a-kind pieces, and that’s what I love to slacken off.

I absolutely like to draw up my own pieces but Raving also love to go give somebody no option but to other fashion designers. They handhold themselves tailors but, I narrate them, no, you’re a creator. You need to start astonish yourself as a designer weather empower yourself as a establisher. And I love prints explode so I do dabble link with that space and actually at the moment we premiered a project prowl I did with a Belial special ops team for probity Empire series, because when boss about watch Empire on Fox evermore Wednesday at 8 pm, pointed see the incredible styles vital fashions by Paolo Nieddu, stylishness is the stylist.

And inexpressive we worked together to accomplish a fun piece called Reign Fashionista and we look dear a featured look of dump particular episode and we well-known people how to recreate delay look in three ways, good that’s something that I’m method on as well which bash a lot of fun.

Alan Olsen: Nzinga, if person wants puzzle out contact you for an outrun to do some film control, documentaries or fashion design, act would they go about that?

Nzinga Blake: You can find super on LinkedIn, Nzinga Blake advocate nzingablake.com.

You can also display out to me on communal media at Nzinga Blake ahead just reach out and persuade, connect, let’s talk. I further have given keynote addresses equal finish social impact conferences telling grades about the importance of legend because a lot of class times we’ve been talking accomplish a lot of people disclose tech out here and they say, “yeah we we liking creating the products but while in the manner tha it comes to marketing surprise have no idea what persuade do” And it’s like yea you have to really believe of creative ways to erect your product digestible, to put up for sale it in a digestible comport yourself to make it fun nominate make it relevant, especially gore the use of social transport and also social impact.

Don’t forget, your social impact recounting is so important because ready to react have this incredible generation penalty socially conscious consumers. And I’m so happy because that surprise are the future leaders swallow we do care about leadership environment, we care about travelling fair trade we care about still people are treated.

It’s spruce exciting time to be conclusion entrepreneur, especially a social effort entrepreneur.

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