Author: Stevingfelix
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From mutual aid networks to cultural organizations, discover how diaspora communities create support systems that span the globe.
When my family arrived in Minneapolis from Somalia in 2001, we had nothing but the clothes we were wearing and a small bag of documents. Within a week, we had an apartment, furniture, and a refrigerator full of food. Within a month, my father had a job. This was not government assistance or charity—it was…
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Profiles of groundbreaking tech entrepreneurs from diaspora
The story of Silicon Valley cannot be told without acknowledging the diaspora entrepreneurs who built it. From the early pioneers at Intel and Sun Microsystems to today’s leaders at Google, Microsoft, and countless startups, immigrants and their children have been at the heart of American technological innovation. But the new generation of diaspora tech leaders…
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We Are The World
By Amara Okonkwo, Cultural Anthropologist. The first time I truly understood what it meant to be between two worlds was at a family dinner in Lagos. My grandmother served jollof rice with the same reverence my American colleagues showed for Thanksgiving turkey. In that moment, I realized I was neither fully Nigerian nor fully American—I…
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Visionary entrepreneurs leveraging their dual cultural knowledge
When I founded my first company at 24, connecting suppliers in Shenzhen with retailers in San Francisco, I had one advantage my competitors lacked: I grew up in both worlds. My childhood summers in my grandfather’s trading company in Guangzhou gave me insights that no MBA program could teach. The diaspora entrepreneur occupies a unique…