Glocal Citizens - Episodes Tagged with “Bronx”

Episode 326: Thoughts on Reclaiming Your Community with Majora Carter

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week in our continuing Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate and Green For All, and in 2017 opened the Boogie Down Grind — a hip-hop-themed coffee and craft beer spot, the first commercial "third space" in Hunts Point since the mid-1980s. Her 2022 book, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, argues that communities thrive when they retain talent and investment rather than losing both to brain drain — a line from the book is now quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

This conversation was truly a treat as trip down memory lane to my early career working across the five boroughs in New York City. I have watched an admired Majora’s economic development acuman since visiting Sustainable South Bronx in the early 2000’s as I was getting my start managing and tech-focused industry development project at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. It speaks to the spirit of this BWRE collaboration bringing together Black women in the real estate sector showcasing the personal and professional journeys and highlight how Black women in the industry invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets and so much more.

Where to find Majora?

On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On YouTube

What’s Majora reading?
All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer

Other topics of interest:
Hunts Point, Bronx
Coro Fellowship
The Burning Bronx
US Green Building Council
Meet Winona Leduke
About the White Earth Reservation
Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise Podcast
Where were America’s Black Wall Streets
What is Birch Coffee all about?
Cass Gilbert, Architect
Bronxlandia Special Guest: Majora Carter.

Episode 137: Adulting as a Third Culture Kid with Adja Sakho Part 2

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!
It's a new month, my favorite of the year, and we're kicking it off with a two part conversation that bloomed during the Dakar leg of my spring tour. Joining me for this conversation between kindred spirits is Senagalese-American, Adja Maymouna Sakho. She is an educator, advocate, leader, supporter and connector of people and ideas, who is passionate about serving others through education and social justice - particularly women and children. She has over 10 years experience in education, finance, DEIJ - and has had roles ranging from trainer, advisor, evaluator, board representative, director, committee chair and most important to her - agent of change in the lives of young women and girls. She is also an Africanist and believes that Africans must lead the charge to change the narrative and the current state of affairs of many African countries. She is building on this mission as the host of 221 Afrique, a podcast focused on telling stories of Africans returning home to the continent.

From our common experiences as children of West African immigrants to attending the same graduate school at New York University, this conversation offers great insights into the rich culture and lifestyle transitions that are possible in designing a global existence.

Where to find Adja?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On Twitter
On YouTube

What's Adja reading?
Finding Me by Viola Davis

What's Adja watching?
On Senegalese "Telenovelas"

Other topics of interest:
Yoff in Dakar
Senegambia
Upward Bound
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority
New York City Teaching Fellows
About Third Culture Kids
On the latest Senegalese Musicians
About Eid Al Adha
Special Guest: Adja Maymouna Sakho .

Episode 136: Adulting as a Third Culture Kid with Adja Sakho Part 1

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Where to find Adja?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On Twitter
On YouTube

What's Adja reading?
Finding Me by Viola Davis

What's Adja watching?
On Senegalese "Telenovelas"