Team, We Them Media

Who films it

Ten on the core team

Small team. Everybody has shipped.

Maceo

Founder, Lead contributor

Founder. Lead host. Forty hours a month behind the camera, writing the plan as I build.

Philadelphia, USA

Marissa

Field Correspondent

Biking across the U.S., reporting from a different state each month. One of the two community projects extending the #QueryTheWorld archive from her own road.

USA, on the road

Bayo

Head of Branding & Media

Designs how everything looks: the templates, color, type, motion and video framing every contributor uses, so the network reads as one voice. Also leads SuperBio · the production partner that handles B2B client work (Mikano x FIRS, Aquari) on behalf of We Them Worldwide LLC.

Abuja, Nigeria

Wuraola

Street content editor

Junior editor. Turns street content into long-form edits and quality shorts. Reporting from Maiduguri.

Maiduguri, Nigeria

Gift

Head of Social Media

Decides what goes out under @wethemmedia, when it goes out, and in what voice. Growing the audience is her job.

Ogun State, Nigeria

Kafani

One Question Program Coordinator, Editing, Social Media Strategy

Program coordinator for One Question and the point of contact for anyone who wants to film one. On the Weekly Connect every Wednesday. Editing across the catalog and running social media strategy for the network. Supports Gift on the social engine. Speeds up the team's editing and publishing. Runs Kafani Tries (a web3 educational series) and an AI extinct civilizations project. SheFi Season 16 alumna.

Lagos, Nigeria

Devin

Field Correspondent

Field correspondent opening the North Carolina beat. Street-level conversations in Charlotte, starting with his own first interview.

Charlotte, NC, USA

Aziz

Livestream Producer, Weekly Connect host

Produces and hosts The Weekly Connect, our community call every Wednesday, and asks most of the questions on it. Runs the stream on X and YouTube, builds the playlist with Kafani, and archives each one so the conversation outlives the hour.

Nairobi

Isaac

Field Correspondent

Field correspondent based in New York. Street interviews alongside Maceo during ETH Conf and beyond.

New York, NY, USA

Kamal

Research Lead, The We Them Weekly

Lawyer by training, writing on blockchain and AI for several years. Runs the research behind our coverage and co-authors The We Them Weekly, our newsletter. Maceo met him at the Black Blockchain Summit at Howard. Hosts Crypto with Kamal: every episode, with a transcript.

Research, Editorial

His book, DeFi for the Diaspora. Buy the paperback

Contributing correspondents

People who shot a specific piece for us. Some answered a bounty on poidh and got paid for it. Others took part because the story was theirs to tell. They are not on the team. They shot something on their own street and we published it.

Sherzin

Mumbai, India

Opened India. First Mumbai dispatch, bilingual street interviews in Hindi and English.

Maritza

Acapulco, Mexico

Opened Mexico. Filed in Spanish, on the ground.

WalkwithGod

Abuja, Nigeria

Street pieces out of Abuja.

Kaspa

Nigeria

Campus reporting.

Lorah

Abuja, Nigeria

Won the Global Pizza Party Bounty with a fashion-interview piece shot at a party in Abuja.

John Bayode

Ibadan, Nigeria

Filming across Nigeria, on the move.

Fidesio

Nairobi, Kenya

Filing from Nairobi on the daily beat.

Tim

Denver, CO, USA

Street piece out of Denver.

Calib

Denver, CO, USA

Street piece out of Denver.

Production partners, SuperBio

Bayo (visual lead, listed above in the main team) also runs SuperBio in Abuja with Musah and Yama. SuperBio is the production services partner We Them Worldwide LLC subcontracts for B2B engagements: brand documentaries, series production, short form, color grading.

Musah

Series Production, Short Form, SuperBio

Produces short-form pieces and multi-episode series. Produced the 6-part Mental Health in Abuja editorial series and founder/brand storytelling work (Comfort, Abuja real estate).

Abuja, Nigeria

Yama

Editor & Colorist, SuperBio

Edits and color-grades SuperBio's client work, including Mikano x FIRS, a federal client, and the Aquari documentary.

Abuja, Nigeria

Editorial advisors

Senior editorial voices shaping the standards we hold ourselves to.

Arikia

Editorial Advisor

Founder of CTRL+X, a blockchain platform for peer-to-peer journalism licensing, and formerly the youngest editor at WIRED. She advises on We Them Media’s interview standards, event coverage and editorial review. What she argues, and everything we have filmed with her

Founder, CTRL+X

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