Hayden Fennoy was born and raised on the westside of Detroit. First generation graduate who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in the agriculture sector. Now currently residing in China as an English teacher.

Kyle Maronie is an RPCV thats served Cameroon. He works in public health preparedeness with Harris County Public Health in Houston Texas. He is native son of the Commonwealth of Dominica and was raised in Houston, Texas.

Meredith is travel blogger from the USA with over 50 passport stamps. She adds an intuitive insight into life as she jet sets around the globe. Where in the world is Meredith San Diego? Seeking adventure and empowering women of all ages, shapes and ethnicities to go into the world and explore more. Peace Corps- Macedonia ( North Macedonia) Connect with with Meredith using the links below. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bagladymeredithsandiego/ IG:...

Tim Campbell grew up in the urban, inner-city of Little Rock, Arkansas.  He attended and subsequently graduated from Central High School in 2010. Tim attended UAPB, where he studied health and wellness, graduating in 2015 as the first member of his family to receive a college degree.   Upon graduation, he was successfully accepted into the U.S. Peace Corps Program, where he served as a Community Health Facilitator in the Gambia.  Following his two-year tenure with the Peace Corps, Tim spent...

Nyassa Kollie is a Chicagoland recruiter for the U.S. Peace Corps. She served as a Secondary School English Educator in Peace Corps Malawi from 2015 to 2017. She then continued to serve as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in Malawi from 2017 to 2018. During service Nyassa worked closely with community based organizations to engage and empower adolescent young girls on projects surrounding environmental education, drought resistant agriculture practices, HIV/AIDS awareness/risk reduction, and...

Rob is the Director of Student Programs at the IOP and staff coordinator of the Harvard Votes Challenge. His work has focused on themes of civic engagement, community development and educational equity in the US, Latin America and Africa. Prior to joining the IOP, Rob served as a consultant and advisor to organizations that include the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Harvard College, Tufts University, The Social Impact Studio, FUSE Corps and The Obama Foundation. A former...

On this Bonus episode of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad I will be sitting down with Black and white Americans, discussing social and economic perspectives as Americans living in China and how skin color affects our experience.  Listen as we have a intellectual conversation about the realities that our skin color brings in America compared to living abroad in China. Watch the video of this round table discussion below: https://youtu.be/mbhKcEvCSMs

Now 2020 has been a crazy year and a year of overcoming and persevering. With that being said we are ending the year with episode number 10 with   Constance Collins.   She shares her story about not only surviving but also thriving in the mist of challenges and life threatening adversity.  We are talking about two dialysis surgeries, two transplants, and Lupus flares.  You all are not going to want to miss this warrior story of what it is like living and traveling abroad with a chronic...

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Welcome to episode number 9 of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad. On this episode we are taking y'all to Fiji with guest Freeman World. Freeman like host Jerome Moore is from Nashville, TN and is dropping all type of philosophical gems on traveling and life in Fiji as a Black American.   Furthermore, make sure y'all go support and tap in to Freeman's podcast, The Freeman World Experiment, as he tackles current events and topics in culture whilst interjecting a splash of...

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Welcome to episode 8 of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad. We taking y'all on a international education ride on the next episode with Tiffany Green. She works at an amazing project and place based high school called, Think Global School, as a school and college counselor. She travels with students to 12 countries over a 3 year high school career to learn experientially, engage in community service and experience the various cultures encountered first hand. It is highly...

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Welcome to episode number 7 of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad. We taken y'all to Thailand with the amazing creative, dancer, and conscious Kiana Cook. Y'all not going to want to miss this episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Welcome to episode 6 of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad. On this episode we are visiting Duane Lawrence in Xiamen, China. Duane is the youngest of 7 and grew up in Florida. At age 12 he moved from Tampa to Miami, where his creative interests grew. At Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH), it cultivated into a desire for designing products, namely athletic shoes. That drive led him to the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI where studios included product,...

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Welcome to the 5th episode of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad. This week we are going to Goa,India to visit Whitney Soul Pure Gold Brown Ivory. She is known for her amazing soul vocals from Memphis all the way to South Korea to her amazing yoga online studio she launched during the 2020 global pandemic in efforts to provide a space for the BLACK/POC community to elevate mentally, emotionally, physically, & spiritually based out of Goa, India. It is highly encouraged to...

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Hello and welcome to episode number 4 of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad. In this episode we are visiting the medical student turned humanitarian and President and Co-Founder of A.C.O.P.E.R.I. , the amazing Israel Collier living in Moldova.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ngoacoperimoldova IG: https://www.instagram.com/a.c.o.p.e.r.i/?hl=af Website coming: acoperi.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/israelcollier/ Email: [email protected] --- This episode is...

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Welcome to the 3 Episode of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad!!!!  We will be visiting the dynamic POWER couple Ty & Shay.  Ty & Shay are originally from Brooklyn, NY and became citizens of Canada in 2019. They have lived & work in Vancouver, B.C since 2012. Shay is a full-time VFX Coordinator at Double Negative and Ty is a full-time Senior Technical Director at Sony Imageworks. Ty & Shay are high school sweethearts. In 2009, the couple got married and moved...

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Welcome to episode number 2! We are taking y'all to Tokyo, Japan where the award winning actor and guest, Alex Hunter, will take us through his eight year experience has a Black American in Japan and a day in the life of the entertainment business in Tokyo.  It is highly encouraged to connect with Alex at any of the platforms linked below.  Instagram: https://instagram.com/sageofstone?igshid=z8j5n9k8yycy  IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4244942/?ref_=nm_mv_close   Twitter:...