Gennike A. Mayers is the author of CARICOM: Good Offices, Good Neighbours (2021) and host of the forthcoming podcast of the same name by Victory &amp; Noble. She is also the unofficial ambassador of Tobago, the smaller of the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; co-founder of the Caribbean Community of Venture Capitalists; and a pioneer who is tackling the burden created by 11 annual metric tons of sargassum seaweed washing up on pristine Caribbean shorelines. Through her global Spargassum oil and soaps brand, she is turning waste into wealth for the Caribbean Community. Every now and then, she runs towards disasters, where most would run away, as part of humanitarian responses by the Red Cross and the United Nations.

Gennike A. Mayers

Patrick A. Howell is the co-founder of the Caribbean Community of Venture Capitalists fund and Global Market IQ and still believes in the best of humanity and knows that he can do anything he sets his mind to because, well, he has.

Patrick A. Howell

Hip Hop and CARICOM Turned 50 Last Year—So, Now What?

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Robert Houston: “A Photographer Who Shot from the Heart”

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Hold Sacred Our Humanity: A Conversation with Abiodun Oyewole

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Tori Reid is a Los Angeles-based producer, creative executive and Hollywood insider. She has worked practically in every aspect of the television and film industry, both in front and behind the camera.&nbsp;She is also the CEO and co-founder of Victory &amp; Noble, a storytelling company, and also a new channel debuting on LARB this winter.&nbsp;

Tori Reid

Here’s to Life with Tori Reid, Episode 02:  Phylicia Rashad - What Makes Phylicia, Phylicia?

Tori Reid Talks to the Iconic Nikki Giovanni

Griot Jali: California’s First Poet Laureate, Quincy Troupe, Returns to His Old Stomping Ground

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Nikki Giovanni: In Her Revolutionary Dream