Philadelphia · Field interview
"The numbers don't add up to work for nobody."
The Crew
Contributors on their own streets.
Maceo plus nine on the core team, and the contributing reporters who filmed the rest. Two of them are on payroll. Everybody on it has shipped something.
Who films it
Ten on the core team
Small team. We hit hard.
Maceo
Founder · Lead contributor
Founder. Lead host. Forty hours a month behind the camera, writing the plan as I build.
Philadelphia, USA
Marissa
Field Reporter
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
Sets the visual direction across the network and owns the brand identity system. Templates, color, typography, motion, video framing, the visual language contributors pull from so the masthead reads as one voice across surfaces. Also leads SuperBio · the production partner that handles B2B client work (Mikano x FIRS, Aquari) on behalf of We Them Worldwide LLC. Holds the aesthetic bar on every piece WTM ships.
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
Owns voice, cadence, and the cross-pollination calendar. The editorial decision-maker for what goes out under @wethemmedia. The audience growth across our 10 target countries is hers to grow.
Ogun State, Nigeria
Kafani
One Question Community Steward · Editing · Social Media Strategy
Community steward 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 Reporter
Field reporter 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 Reporter
Field reporter based in New York. Street interviews alongside Maceo during ETH Conf and beyond.
New York, NY, USA
Kamal
Research Lead · The Dispatch
Lawyer by training, writing on blockchain and AI for several years. Runs the research behind our coverage and co-authors The Dispatch, our newsletter. Maceo met him at the Black Blockchain Summit at Howard.
Research · Editorial
Contributing reporters
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 the India desk. First Mumbai dispatch, bilingual street interviews in Hindi and English.
Maritza
Acapulco, Mexico
Opened the Mexico desk. 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: large-scale brand documentaries, series production, short form at volume, color grading.
Musah
Series Production · Short Form · SuperBio
High-quality short form and series production at volume. Produced the 6-part Mental Health in Abuja editorial series and founder/brand storytelling work (Comfort, Abuja real estate). Built for multi-part editorial that holds tonally across episodes.
Abuja, Nigeria
Yama
Editor & Colorist · SuperBio
Editing and color grading on SuperBio's commissioned production work. Cinematic finishing on Mikano x FIRS (federal client) and Aquari (impact documentary). The hand that takes raw footage to delivery-ready master.
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. Journalist and engineer with years of industry experience, shaping We Them Media’s interview standards, event coverage, and editorial review across the network. What she argues, and everything we have filmed with her →
Founder, CTRL+X
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