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Strategic Storytelling Producer/Editor
I help visionaries bring untold stories to life
🎬 Amazon, PBS, Hulu
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Our short doc “Parker” premiered at Sundance! The audience loved it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Directors: @sharonliese @cath_hoffman
Producers: @sharonliese, Sam Hake, and me
Director of Photography: @jack.the.dp
Editor: Me

#sundance #parker #sundance2023 #documentary taken in Park City, Utah by @funmi_ogunro

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Check out a show I worked on that premiered today on Hulu. Memphis to the Mountain. The 3 part docuseries follows nine rock climbers from Memphis as they train and attempt to climb the second tallest mountain in Africa, known as one of the most dangerous and challenging climbs in the country. #tveditor #editor taken in Hulu by @funmi_ogunro

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I was an editor on this amazing project! Premiering Feb 4 on @amazonprimevideo #guytorry #phattuesdays taken in Los Angeles, California by @funmi_ogunro

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We sat down with 96 year-old Master Barber, Mrs. Ereline Holloway Gibson to discuss her story barbering.

Mrs. Gibson was born on December 14, 1929 in Giddings, Texas. She decided to attend barber college in the 1940s while in Ft. Worth helping her sister and newly born child. According to Mrs. Gibson, she became bored and saw an advertisement for barber school and decided that’ what she wanted to do.

She attended barber college in Ft. Worth and traveled to Tyler Barber College in Tyler, TX where she took her board exam to become a barber. Mrs. Gibson decided to return to Austin and apply her trade. She remembers Mr. Galloway of Ideal Barbershop driving her around to different barber shops in the area. Her first barbershop was Timmons Barber Shop located at 1209 Chicon Street.

Mr. Timmons, an older gentleman and musician originally from St. Simon’s Island Georgia, taught Mrs. Gibson a lot about barbering.

Being a “lady barber,” as Mrs. Gibson prefers to label herself, brought it own unique challenges. She remembers some male customers would just get her chair to flirt. In one instance, a customer who didn’t respect the process and decided to speak through his shave with Mrs. Gibson’s straight razor, as she didn’t use a safety razor, she let it “lick him.” She said the customer attempted to blame her for cutting him, but she replied saying “he cut himself because he was talking.”

Mrs. Gibson was not the only Black woman barber in Austin. In fact, there are many Black women who went into barbering careers. There were even Black women in Austin who owned barbershops. Mrs. Gibson remembers Mrs. Randolph’s Randolph Barber Shop at 1214 Chicon Street and Margie’s Barber Shop at 1701 Rosewood Avenue.

Over the course of her career, Mrs. Gibson was voted the president of the Texas Association of Tonsorial Artists (TAOTA) where led the association in holding barber balls, barbers conventions in Austin and elsewhere.

This interview is part of documentary that is being created by @funmi_ogunro and @javierwallace512 to tell the story of Ideal Barbershop (Austin’s oldest standing Black-owned barbershop) and Black businesses at East 12th street & Chicon taken in Ideal Barber Shop by @funmi_ogunro

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ZaDarius B. Webber and Omar J. Trevino both discovered they were related to Silvia Webber, a Black woman who was enslaved and gained her freedom 30+ years before slavery was officially abolished. She and her husband, John Webber, a white man, helped enslaved Black people self emancipate to Mexico,they used their ferry business in Webberville, Texas to take people via the Colorado River into Mexico. Webberville is named after her and her husband. “Her Name is Silvia” is brought to you by the Webber Family Preservation Project.

Want to host a screening? Want to know when you can watch?

Comment “WATCH” and we’ll send you a link with everything you need. by @funmi_ogunro

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Every TSP conference starts with one special day before, mastermind day. We lock in together for a full day addressing all areas of business and giving tailored attention to our clients before the room fills. We usually end these days with a fun activity, we’ve done everything from arcades, bowling, we even had a casino night.

This one was different.

We rented out an entire theater for just US and got the extreme privilege of screening @javierwallace512 ‘s documentary C.B.: Power to The Player @cbthemovie . Honoring the great @cbclaiborne and telling a story we should’ve all learned a long time ago.

If you don’t know this amazing story this film is a must see. I’m grateful Ronnie and I had the chance to share it with our community and also get C.B. In the room to hear from him first hand.

Having one of “the firsts” in the room with us and realizing this was only about 50 years ago was such a clear reminder that we arent as far removed as they want us to believe.

They tell us “that’s the past” “you need to move on”. I see it as an affirmation that yes we’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go. In TSP we say We Are The Ones we’ve been waiting for. Nobody is coming to save us, and @cbclaiborne is living proof.

This is a night I won’t ever forget.

Have you heard this story? taken in Atlanta, Georgia by @funmi_ogunro

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We had a great time with @angelayee and @staceytisdale. They interviewed us on @wayupwithyee about our film, @cbthemovie, about Dr. Claudius ‘CB’ Claiborne, the first Black athlete and basketball player at Duke University. Learn more about our plans for the film, comment “WATCH” and I’ll send you the full episode! taken in iHeartRadio HQ by @funmi_ogunro

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It’s out!

@javierwallace512 , @funmi_ogunro and C.B. Claiborne and I traveled to iHeartMedia Studios in the heart of Manhattan, New York City to join @wealthwednesdays on @wayupwithyee with @staceytisdale and @angelayee

We had an incredible conversation about @cbthemovie , the legacy of Duke’s first Black basketball player @dukembb , the evolution of NIL, and the importance of preserving the stories that shaped the game we know today. Plus other topics!

🎥 Want to watch the full episode?

Comment WATCH below, and we’ll send you the link! taken in New York City by @funmi_ogunro

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Floris “Ms. Flo” Sorrells grew up in Manchaca, Texas, just a few miles from Austin, in a community where everyone cared for and helped one another, all living off the land, tending it, raising livestock, and growing their own crops. She’s featured in our upcoming film, RISE.

Want film updates? Comment “RISE” and we’ll send you a link. by @funmi_ogunro

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As @dukembb ’s first Black basketball player, Claiborne made a decision that went far beyond basketball.

He refused to cut his Afro, even as he knew that Coach Bubas would bench him.

As he shared with senior captain, @iamcalebfoster , his Afro wasn’t just a hairstyle, it was an expression of racial pride and solidarity with the Black Power Movement of the late 1960s.

He chose to defy the culture’s expectations and accept the consequences, even if it meant not playing.

His actions are a reminder that some of the greatest contributions to sports are not measured by points, rebounds, or championships. They are measured by the willingness to sacrifice personal opportunity for the dignity and advancement of an entire people.

CB Claiborne helped change Duke basketball long before Duke became the powerhouse the world knows today. His courage expanded what was possible, opening doors for generations of Black athletes who followed.

This is why we’re committed to telling CB Claiborne’s story in a feature-length documentary. by @funmi_ogunro

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Ms. Flo and her siblings used to find arrowheads scattered in the grass of her family’s cemetery in Manchaca, TX (a few miles away from Austin, TX). Indigenous tribes, likely Tonkawa, lived here, walked this soil, and cultivated this land right here in Central Texas.

Ms. Flo is featured in our upcoming documentary. Comment RISE and will send you a link for film updates. by @funmi_ogunro

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Ms. Flo says when she was younger, they’d go into the woods and pick up duck eggs to make cakes and those cakes were the richest in flavor.

Ms. Flo grew up in Manchaca, Texas on her family’s land, eating off the land and living off the land.

She’s featured in our upcoming documentary, RISE, a film about Austin’s Black freedom communities. Comment RISE below and we’ll send you the sign up link for film updates. 🎬 by @funmi_ogunro

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