Manny Faces | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Bio

Manny Faces is an award-winning new media journalist and podcaster based in the New York Metropolitan area. Manny studies, documents, and shares innovative, inspiring, and often surprising ways that Hip-Hop Culture can improve lives, livelihoods, and communities across a wide range of fields.

Manny is also the producer and host of News Beat (www.usnewsbeat.com), a groundbreaking, multiple award-winning podcast series that melds hard-hitting social justice journalism and expert interviews with music and original hip-hop lyrics crafted by independent hip-hop artists. News Beat was awarded Best Podcast at the 2018 New York Press Club Journalism Awards.

Manny is also an accomplished DJ, producer/remixer, event host, and public speaker, advocating on behalf of hip-hop music, culture, and community. He has spoken at, moderated, and participated in panel discussions, workshops, and conferences at universities, organizations, and festivals throughout the country and the world.

Current position (3)

Award-Winning Journalist & Podcaster, Exec. Dir.

The Center for Hip-Hop Advocacy

President, Executive Producer

Manny Faces Media

Producer, Host, Co-Creator

News Beat Podcast

Achievements (1)

Best Journalism Podcast (Co-Creator, Producer)

News Beat (www.usnewsbeat.com) is a groundbreaking, multiple award-winning podcast series that melds hard-hitting social justice journalism and expert interviews with music and original hip-hop lyrics crafted by independent hip-hop artists. It has received several prominent journalism awards.

Presentations

Presentations (5)

Hip-Hop Can Hack Everything! Lessons From A Culture of Innovation

Hip-hop is a world-class disruptor. It has transformed music, popular culture, fashion, business and advertising, creating (and upending) massive industries in its wake. This talk explores the enormous innovative potential that hip-hop music, culture, and perspective can bring to multiple fields and disciplines including science and technology, education, health and wellness, politics and activism, journalism, fine arts and… Well. Everything.

Hip-Hop Can Save Your Business! Inspiration From a Culture of Entrepreneurship

From startups to established companies, all businesses share some basic goal: Expand the customer base, innovate in the field, and perhaps most importantly, find that killer competitive edge. This talk explores the innovative, inspiring and often surprising lessons that hip-hop culture can bring to any kind of business to help achieve these objectives.

Inspiration: Lessons from a culture of innovation.
Inclusion: Authentically expand your business to include the hip-hop minded consumer.
Innovation: Understand the unique perspectives hip-hop minded people bring to any business.

Still Fighting The Power: Hip-Hop’s Evolving Role in the Battle For Social Justice

Bad Raputation: Media, Corporations & High-Profile Individuals Are Killing An American Culture

Podcasting to Grow Your Business or Nonprofit

Past talks (4)

Hip-Hop Can Save Your Business!

Makerhoods / Express Newark

Hip-Hop Can Hack Everything!

TripTech

Carnegie Mellon University / Google

March 30, 2019

Hip-Hop Can Hack Everything!

Circle of H.O.P.E. (Hackers Of Planet Earth)