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Featuring: LaKay Cornell
Meet LaKay. She’s a lover, a fighter, a believer, and so much more. She’s using her talents to make culture more inclusive and change the narrative that shapes our world.
What is your current work?
I am a culture critic, writer, feather ruffler, and speaker. I am on a mission to change the way we create change — starting with the words we use to describe our work, our lives, and our dreams.
I am also a perpetual ideator and always have one or two business ideas I am testing.
What do you love about it?
I have met so many amazing people doing such innovative and disruptive work over the past 7 years. Telling their stories and thinking of ways to help make their brands legendary is one of my greatest joys.
I know in my soul that to create a more just and sustainable world, the most successful brands, must also be the most intersectional ones: considering and working towards racial justice, economic justice, climate justice, and gender justice, in everything they do.
What makes you great at what you do?
I read all the time — the latest in social justice, social impact, and design thinking. I follow trends and believe…
