016: So Real with Medgine Williams

I am so excited to be bringing you this guest on the series, Medgine Williams. Medgine is an entrepreneur and fashion stylist who helps people find outfits and styles that speak to them and their personal tastes.

You’ll hear how you can support without appropriating other people’s cultures, how generations of oppression still affect the Black community today and why equity needs to be a part of the conversation we have about race and diversity. 

What’s in this episode:

How Medgine and I met each other

Her experience as a Haitian American

Why you have to respect other people’s cultures

How she got into her career in fashion

The role clothes play in how you represent yourself

The appropriation of culture in fashion

How you can support without appropriating cultures 

Changes she’s seen over the years in the context of race in America

How generational oppression still affects the Black community today 

Why equity needs to be apart of the diversity conversation 

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