Christina Blacken of The New Quo Knows Too Many Uses for Jell-O

In this first episode of THE BLACK SNOB POD, please allow The Snob to reintroduce herself... Danielle Belton is back, baby!

After a 14-year hiatus, your friendly neighborhood snob has returned to blogging, but that's not all I'm doing! THE BLACK SNOB POD will feature interviews with talented individuals, many of whom have worked quietly behind the scenes in entertainment, beauty, media, the nonprofit world, and more.

These folks are ready to give us a peek behind the curtain into their incredible careers and multifaceted lives by sitting down in conversation with The Snob.

First up? Christina Blacken of The New Quo Foundation. From working in branded content at the former Gawker Media Group to helping Fortune 500 companies create more equitable workspaces, Christina is a woman on a mission to make our world a better place through creativity and storytelling. But she's also a Black woman from Utah—yes, Utah—who has opinions on everything from the news media to reality TV.

During our conversation, we spill the tea on what it was like working with the former Gawker blogs, the death of DEI, and why The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City might be a bit more real than you'd imagine.

Also, during this episode, The Snob introduces two recurring segments: NO! NO! NO!, where I rant about what's wrong with the world, and YES! YES! YES!, a rapturous celebration of the things I love.

In this episode, I say NO NO NO to having ADHD and YES YES YES to a pack of frozen ramen noodles.

THE BLACK SNOB POD debuts every other Friday on YouTube and is filmed in my very snobby pad in Ocean Hill near the historic Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY.

This video podcast is produced by Moses Williams, written and hosted by me, and developed by both of us. A little Williams-Belton collab! I'm so proud of this guy, who I have known since he was 11.

Watch Episode #1 of THE BLACK SNOB POD below

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