The Hermanas Project: Recent Episodes
Angie Romero
The Hermanas Project is a sisterhood of extraordinary women of color and allies. We share inspiring stories, spread ideas, and have meaningful conversations, with the goal of empowering each other and younger generations to live out our dreams. Created by Angie Romero, a journalist, content producer and Latinx cultural curator. Join our host as she shines a light on these incredibly inspiring figures from film/TV, tech, politics, arts/culture, activism, and beyond.
Angie interviews journalist Alicia Menendez. Named “Broadcast Journalism’s New Gladiator” by Elle Magazine, “Ms. Millennial” by The Washington Post, and a “Content Queen” by Marie Claire, Alicia has quickly become a force in American media. She currently works as a co-host of Amanpour & Co., a global affairs show which airs on PBS and CNNi; and a contributing editor at Bustle, the largest media property for Millennial women. She is also the Host and Co-Executive Producer of the Latina to Latina podcast, currently in its second season.
Angie sits down with Korean American scribe Serena Kim, editor in chief of Kore Asian Media, the premiere lifestyle brand catering to the Asian American diaspora. Together they celebrate the incredible artistic achievements of the Asian community in 2018, including the success of Crazy Rich Asians, and discuss why it’s taken so long for Asians to have this lasting cultural moment in the mainstream, Kim’s own journey growing up in Los Angeles amid blatant racism, her inspiring contributions to hip-hop journalism, and the universal human quest for validation.
Angie sits down with her Desi sister from another mister, Smriti Mundhra, a brilliant filmmaker and journalist who won the Tribeca Film Festival's Best New Documentary Director Award for her first film, A Suitable Girl. The doc follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. Here, Mundhra opens up about her unique journey as an Indian American woman, using her voice to uplift her community and all women of color, and how her late father, the beloved Bollywood director Jag Mundhra continues to inspire the “wokeness” of her life and career.
In this episode, Angie interviews Deb Haaland, Democratic candidate for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. If she wins the House seat on Nov. 6th, Haaland, a proud member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, would make history as the first Native American woman to serve in Congress. A voice for women of color, single mothers, military families, the LGBTQ community, and anyone who feels marginalized, Haaland gets personal about what led her to a remarkable life in public service.
In the first-ever episode of The Hermanas Project, host Angie Romero sits down with a not-so-hidden figure in Hollywood (and her own personal mentor), Mimi Valdés. Currently the Chief Creative Officer for I Am Other, Pharrell Williams' music and entertainment collective, Valdés opens up about growing up in New York City's projects, her Afro-Latina identity, her journey from music journalist, to editor-in-chief, to one of the most influential storytellers of our time behind such films as the Oscar-nominated Hidden Figures, and why she lives by the motto, "embrace the risky."