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.

This week on the podcast we have another installment of Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate collaboration--Borderless Building. Throughout the year, we’re hosting conversations with BWRE members showcasing the personal and professional journeys of Black women in the real estate industry across tthe global. We’re highlighting how Black women in the industry invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets; and how we are offering valuable insight into the business/operational functions in the real estate industry to inspire a spirit of land stewardship. You’ll hear this and more in this week's conversation.

My guest, Nioki Doggett comes to us from the UK by way of her Bajan roots in Barbados. Throughout her career, she’s helped institutional investors across the globe navigate complex real estate markets and find high-conviction opportunities, building the kind of trust that turns one-time conversations into decade-long partnerships. As Lead Business Development and Investor Relations Director for M&G Real Estate's European Platform, she drives capital growth and delivers tailored investment solutions for global institutional investors. Her work sits at the intersection of relationship management, market insight, and strategic advisory.

Beyond her core role, Nioki is actively involved in shaping the broader real estate and investment community as a Committee Member of the INREV DDQ Committee, the Guild of Investment Managers, Ladies in Real Estate. She is a mentor at Chancerygate supporting real estate undergraduates entering the industry, and conference moderator and panel speaker on real estate and investment topics.

Listen and learn more about how her deep expertise in real estate investment dynamics and global investor network spanning multiple markets and geographies are creating value where it counts.

Where to find Nioki?
On LinkedIn
@ Ladies in Real Estate (LiRE)

What’s Nioki watching?
Grey’s Anatomy and other shows by Shonda Rhimes
Apprentice UK
Dragon’s Den

What’s Nioki listening to?
Bruno Mars
Marvin Sapp
Adele
Olivia Dean
Daniel Caesar

Other topics of interest:
About Black Women in Real Estate
About Barbados now and Bajan roots
Reading, Berkshire
Royal Borough of Windsor

Special Guest: Nioki Doggett.