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Ozzie Godinez and the Trouble with Being Understood
Born in Mexico and raised on Chicago’s South Side, Ozzie Godinez built PACO Collective around a frustration: advertising kept flattening the people it hoped to reach. His answer began with a friend, a kitchen table, and a willingness to listen more closely.
PACO Collective and the Borrowed Projector That Changed the Brief
Two ad men, a cocktail napkin and a borrowed projector became a Chicago agency built to replace cultural shorthand with cultural intelligence. The clever part was knowing when their own original idea had to change.
MRS Unlimited Built the Multicultural Marketing Brief Before It Was Fashionable
For 25 years, Larry Fairley’s North Carolina agency has translated cultural fluency into practical work - from scholarship programs and HBCU tours to a BMW conference app that reached 75% adoption.
Carey Krug Made Listening Look Like a Brand Strategy
At Abercrombie, Carey Collins Krug helped trade a velvet-rope identity for customer-led belonging. Her next brief at Vuori is larger, more global and built on the same deceptively simple habit: pay attention.
Jennifer Bromley Made the Career Pivot Marketers Talk About - From Selling Services to Selling a Fairer Idea
After two decades building brands, Jennifer Bromley moved from the customer economy to the inclusion economy. Her playbook is refreshingly practical: listen early, make the mission legible, and treat advocacy as an operating discipline.
Esi Eggleston Bracey Built Brands by Looking for Who Was Missing
An engineer by training and an accidental marketer by her own account, Esi Eggleston Bracey has spent 35 years finding the people brands overlook - then turning that attention into products, growth, representation, and durable change.
TALEA Beer Co.
TALEA Beer Co. is a women-founded and women-owned craft brewery based in Brooklyn, New York, built to make beer approachable for people the craft category has historically overlooked. Founded in 2018 by Tara Hankinson and LeAnn Darland and opened as a brewery and taproom in 2021, TALEA brews fruit-forward, lower-alcohol reinventions of classic styles and runs a growing network of design-forward taprooms across New York City, alongside a direct-to-consumer online shop, retail distribution in 1,300+ New York stores, and events.