Beyond the Mic: Expanding Your Content Ecosystem & Cultivating Community

This session is part of the 3-day Podcast Creator Summit at WAMU.

How do you create a content ecosystem that supports your passions? This session, led by Glory Edim, will focus on her journey to building Well-Read Black Girl – a podcast and digital literacy platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. By engaging audiences through various platforms, events, and media formats, Glory was able to build a strong community by opening up several different entry points to her work and brand. She'll share tips and takeaways on how to convert your expertise in one medium to another and create an ecosystem and community around that expertise as an independent creator. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow audio creators and industry professionals.

This is an in-person event and will not be livestreamed or recorded.

About the Speaker

Glory Edim is an author, community organizer, and the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club-turned-literacy non-profit that celebrates the life changing power of literature. Well-Read Black Girl’s mission is to use storytelling as a tool for advocacy and collective empowerment. Glory recently launched a new chapter of her podcast – Well-Read. Glory has won numerous awards for her work supporting and sustaining literature, including the 2017 Innovator’s Award and the Madam C.J. Walker Award from the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Her best-selling anthology, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, was published by Penguin Random House in 2018. Her memoir, Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me, debuts in October 2024. She resides in Washington D.C. with her son, Zik.

Host or Publisher PRX