Glocal Citizens - Episodes Tagged with “Detroit”

Episode 333: A Conversation at the Intersection of AI, storytelling, and digital culture with Eric Hamilton

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week on the podcast storytelling takes center stage with Eric Hamilton, an award-winning AI filmmaker, technology visionary, and innovation leader with over 30 years of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence, storytelling, and digital culture. Eric and I met during early 2000’s when the recent scaffold of tech innovation was in its infancy. Fast forward to these new age “'roaring 20s” and Eric is now the President and Executive Producer of EHAMX Studios, a next-generation AI film and media company producing hyper-real, cinematic content through advanced generative AI systems. His feature film EHAM Classified—a high-intensity sci-fi action thriller—won Best Sci-Fi Film at the New York International Film Festival and has earned recognition from international festivals including Top Shorts.

Before founding EHAMX Studios, Eric held leadership roles at global technology organizations including Google, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, and Dow Jones, where he led innovation across analytics, digital platforms, and emerging technologies.

Through his films and media projects, Eric continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible when cinematic storytelling and artificial intelligence unite on screen. #Listenandlearn more as Eric shares his journey from tech executive to innovative creator, exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming cinematic storytelling and discover his tools, techniques, and insights on the future of AI in film and culture.

Where to find Eric?
On LinkedIn
On IMDB
On Instragram
On Facebook
On YouTube

What’s Eric reading?
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI by Max Tegmark
What’s Eric listening to?
Diary of a CEO

Other topics of interest:
All about Cary, North Carolina
Revisit Glocal Citizen, Jon Laster and the BLAPP app
On Eric’s viral video and interview with David Malkoff
MLK Ski Weekend
Creative AI tools to try - Sora, VEO3, ComfyUI. SeeDance, Suno
Urban Film Festival
FilmFreeway
On Ben Affleck’s InterPositive AI company
About Uganda’s visionary leader, Archbishop Janani Luwum
Special Guest: Eric Hamilton.

Episode 167: Herstories 2023: What is your Craft?

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week on the podcast, rather than one last guest rounding out our March 2023 herstories series, I went into our archives with a specific goal of putting together a salon of sorts about craft. I think of craft as how vocation, location, persistence and passion fulfill us. According to Merriam-Webster, it is skill in planning, making, or executing.

I always ask this question because I feel it allows my guest to share more than what they do on a day-to-day basis for economic returns i.e. work, and gets closer to the heart of who they are and how they go about manifesting a new world. So, this week we’re re-visiting with:

Jamaican-American, Nydia Swaby a Black feminist researcher, writer, and curator based in London about Archives, Art and Freedom Dreams;
Filipino-Jamaican-American, Zee Clarke an author, mindfulness practitioner and racial healing professional about Healing in Breathing;
Ghanaian-Afro-German, Ekua Yankah a thought leader in international development on being a Polyglot, Professor, Policy Advisor and Art Patron;
Ghanaian-Brit, Esther Armah an author, journalist and entrepreneur on storytelling for structural change;
Nigerian, Sarah Adeyinka a humanitarian researcher and author on Humanitarian CoCreating; and
and Detroit Native, Dereca Blackmon an inclusion innovator, speaker and spiritual activist about Uncommon Conversations.

Be sure to check out full episodes using the links above, there’s a wealth of valuable, craft-inspired insights from each of these audacious women! Special Guests: Dereca Blackmon, Ekua Yankah, Esther Armah, Nydia Swaby, Sarah Adeyinka, and Zhalisa "Zee" Clarke.

Episode 132: Uncommon Conversations with Dereca Blackmon Part 2

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

Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast I have the first of a handful of interviews that came about in a back to the future-esque way. This spring, the Stanford National Black Alumni Association biennale summit took place in Washington, D.C. and I organized my spring trip back to the U.S. around reconnecting with my fellow friends and alum and sharing my insights as a Glocal Citizen on a panel entitled, "Africa: Bridging the Diasporic Divide." A propos, my guest, Detroit native, Dereca Blackmon has career-wide experience bridging divides. As Co-Founder and President of the Inclusion Design Group, she is also head trainer and responsible for the creation of the dynamic set of workshops and follow-up activities used by her team. Her experiential training models cut through “diversity fatigue” and allow participants to engage in deep, authentic, and meaningful dialogues. Among her prior positions, she served as the Assistant Vice Provost, Associate Dean and Director of the Diversity and First-Generation Office at Stanford University where she introduced groundbreaking work on authentic engagement, intergroup dialogue, and unconscious bias to over 30,000 students, staff, faculty and alumni. She also taught several courses at Stanford including Intergroup Communication with renowned cultural psychologist Hazel Markus
Reverend Deborah L. Johnson.

For over 25 years, Dereca has consulted with a wide variety of corporate, educational, nonprofit, and community-based groups to facilitate “uncommon conversations” on issues of race, gender, class, and social justice. I hope this two part conversation brings you closer to understanding and embodying your own inclusion mindset.

Where to find Dereca?
www.derecespeaks.com
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On Instagram
On Facebook
On YouTube

What's Dereca reading?
Booksl by Toni Morrison
Books by Stephen King
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks

Other topics of interest:
On Black Detroit
St. Thomas US Virgin Islands
On Oak-Town
About the [Black Panther Party]
What happened to Oscar Grant
(https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/)
BICOP
Shawn Ginwright
Flourish Agenda/Leadership Excellence
Carol Dweck and the Growth Mindset
Dr. Melanie Tervalon and Cultural Humility
What is Neurodivergent

When you click and purchase books using the link(s) above, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your support! Special Guest: Dereca Blackmon.

Episode 131: Uncommon Conversations with Dereca Blackmon Part 1

Florence Amerley Adu — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Where to find Dereca?
www.derecespeaks.com
On LinkedIn
On Twitter
On Instagram
On Facebook
On YouTube

What's Dereca reading?
Books by Toni Morrison
Books by Stephen King
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks

Other topics of interest:
On Black Detroit
St. Thomas US Virgin Islands
On Oak-Town
About the Black Panther Party
What happened to Oscar Grant
BICOP
Shawn Ginwright
Flourish Agenda/Leadership Excellence
Carol Dweck and the Growth Mindset
Dr. Melanie Tervalon and Cultural Humility
What is Neurodivergent?

When you click and purchase books using the link(s) above, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your support! Special Guest: Dereca Blackmon.