RUNWAY Magazine
This magazine is designed to be viewed in full screen mode. If you’re viewing on your phone, make sure to rotate. We hope you enjoy!
ISSUE 002: Grounded
Highlighting Our 2020-2022 Impact
2024 MAGAZINE REFERENCES + Resources
Artwork Credits
-
Megan Totah Design, Grounded Cover, AI Generated Art created in Adobe Firefly. Issued by Adobe Inc. 2023
-
Photography by https://unsplash.com/photos/dock-and-ocean-water-tuiIo0uA-z8
Photography by https://unsplash.com/photos/snow-covered-mountain-oJmVzkVStoo
-
Megan Totah Design, Pixelated Cloud, Graphic Art, 2024
Photography by https://unsplash.com/photos/white-clouds-P8VMwYFY-Es
Spotify Playlist curation Martina Abrahams Ilunga
-
Eduardo Taylor, Grounded, Collage Art, 2024
Funkadelic. (1971). Maggot Brain [Album]. Westbound Records.
-
Megan Totah Design, Forgery in Progress, AI Generated Art created in Adobe Firefly. Issued by
Adobe Inc. 2023
Eduardo Taylor, Power Wealth, Collage Art, 2024
-
Megan Totah Design, Rooted Fund Ecosystem, Collage Art, 2023
Megan Totah Design, Butterfly Gal, Collage Art, 2023
Megan Totah Design, One with the Ecosystem, Collage Art, 2023
Megan Totah Design, Mushroom Tower, Collage Art, 2023
Megan Totah Design, Organic Money Plant Pattern, Digital Art, 2023
-
Megan Totah Design, Rooted from the Ground to the Stars, Collage Art, 2023
-
Photograph by Valerie Anselme of Anselme Studios @anselmestudios
Model: Jessica Norwood
Creative Director: Joëlle Fontaine @iamjoellefontaine
Story Teller: The Diahann Project @thediahannproject
Dress by: Kréyol @iamkreyol
Location: Fairmount Innovation Lab @fairmount_lab
Photography by Laila Harrison
-
Photography by Raquel Jones, Kirk Jordan and members of our trip delegation
-
Photography by https://unsplash.com/photos/a-man-in-a-red-shirt-is-looking-at-the-desert-w-yuRFSkbVw
-
Megan Totah Design, Building a Plane in Motion, AI Generated Art created in Adobe Firefly. Issued by Adobe Inc. 2023
-
Megan Totah Design, Innovating from the Stars, Digital Art, 2024
Eduardo Taylor, Power Wealth, Collage Art, 2024
Eduardo Taylor, RPF, Collage Art, 2024
-
Photography by Two Chicks in the Mix
Photography by Alkali Rye
Photography by Iyoba
Photography by Swap Station
Megan Totah Design, Shop Black 365 Guide, Digital Art, 2024
Eduardo Taylor, Shop Black 365, Collage Art, 2024
-
Photography by Bethanie Hines
-
Photography by https://unsplash.com/photos/a-woman-in-a-white-dress-standing-in-the-water-YOmr11zaOTc
-
Megan Totah Design, Small Steps of Resilience, AI Generated Art created in Adobe Firefly. Issued by Adobe Inc. 2023
Photography by Bethanie Hines
Photography by Aaron Joseph
-
Megan Totah Design, Ripples, Digital Art, 2024
Photography by https://unsplash.com/photos/clear-body-of-watter-iUmoREuqGbo
Megan Totah Design, Wellness Scale, Digital Art, 2024
Megan Totah Design, Healthcare, Digital Art, 2024
-
Photography by https://unsplash.com/photos/two-people-sitting-on-a-rock-looking-out-at-the-ocean-dSTSZbDMaFA
-
Photography by Azteca Negra
Photography by Healing Apothecary
Megan Totah Design, Money Crossword, Digital Art, 2024
-
Megan Totah Design, RUNWAY Hero - A World Where Black Entrepreneurs Thrive, Digital Art, 2023
-
Megan Totah Design, Grounded with the Stars, AI Generated Art created in Adobe Firefly. Issued by Adobe Inc. 2023
Works Cited
-
Roberts, Laura Morgan & Grayson, Megan. “Businesses Must Be Accountable for Their Promises on Racial Justice,” Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Publishing, 01 June 2021
“Building Power,” The Praxis Project, (n.d.).
King, M. L., Jr., “Where Do We Go From Here?” In Annual Report. 11th Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 16 August 1967
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts 7th District. (2023, August 23), Pressley Seeks Answers From Big Banks on Racial Equity Pledges After George Floyd Murder [Press Release]
Ewing, Jack. “Federal Lawsuit Accuses Tesla of Racial Discrimination,” New York Times, 28 September 2023
-
Wexler, Ellen. These Descendants Never Forgot the Story of the Last American Slave Ship, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 October 2022
Yarborough, Orilonise D. Hearing Spirit Speak: Preserving Africatown as a Site of Black Resistance, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 26 January 2022
-
Beasley, Keenan. “For Black entrepreneurs, the racial wealth gap makes finding funding nearly impossible”. Fast Company, 23 January 2020.
Alfred, Lestraundra. “39 Stats About Diversity In Entrepreneurship.” Hubspot, 27 May 2020.
brown, adrienne maree. Emergent Strategy. AK Press, 2017.
Mcdonald, Rory & Bremner, Robert. “When It’s Time to Pivot, What’s Your Story?” Harvard Business Review, from the Magazine September-October 2020.
Lesonsky, Rieva. “Reports Show Black Small Businesses Still Face Major Challenges.” Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2023.
“Survey: Black Small Business Owners are Optimistic About Hiring and Profit Outlook in 2023 While Facing Continued Systemic Barriers to Capital and Financing.” Goldman Sachs, 06 Feb. 2023.
-
Arora, Rohit. “Black-Owned Businesses Were Hit Harder During The Pandemic; What Can Be Done To Help?” Forbes, 29 June 2022.
Fauster-Frau, Sylvia. “Racial bias affected Black-owned small businesses seeking pandemic relief loans, study finds,” Washington Post, 15 October 2021
“Wealth Matters: The Black-White Wealth Gap Before and During the Pandemic” [Report], AmericanProgress.org, 28 July 2021
Lahr, Darcelle, et al. “Where Do We Go From Here? The Survival and Recovery of Black-Owned Businesses Post-COVID-19,” National Library of Medicine, PMC, Aug 2022
“Building supportive ecosystems for Black-owned US businesses,” McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility, McKinsey & Company, 29 October 2020
Resources
-
How to give feedback, How to receive feedback, from the Art of Transformational Consulting
Self-Accountability and Movement Building, from Accountable Communities
Shame vs. Guilt, Brene Brown
The Wheel of Disillusionment: What it is and how it destroys relationships, Nonprofit AF
Trading Glass Ceilings for Glass Cliffs: A Race to Lead Report on Nonprofit Executives of Color
How to Be an Anti-Racist Supervisor: Start by Changing What you Call Yourself
Coaching Out, Management Center,
Art of Transformational Consulting, Wheel of Change