Listen to Black American Melissa C. Potter — born in Jamaica, Queens, raised in Rockland County, New York, and residing in Westchester County — share about pivoting into social impact and strategy work in TV from the music industry. She shares about how the 2020 Q3 and Q4 was a gift and curse for a lot successful professional Black folks where companies were scrambling to hire heads of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Social Impact. She also talks about buying a home during the pandemic when interest rates were very low.

Prior to the pandemic, “On the work front much of the work that I did was in person: hosting film screenings and panel discussions; so, it was all hands-on deck, very high stress, figuring out how to adapt this in-person company model to a virtual space.” Melissa recalls.

“So much of the messaging ...