This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and

tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity,

enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features

like huddles for quick check-ins or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners

inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at

Slack.com slash DHQ.

Welcome to another episode of Small Doses, y'all. You know, I really try my best with

this podcast to let it be a space for true tellers to not only speak to things that I know

you guys are going to find interested in terms of wellness, in terms of career, in terms

of art, but also a space for truth tellers to speak their truth. We have had folks on

this pod who have not been able to access platforms to tell their experiences in the past.

I really do take pride in being able to be a space where we can do that. That brings

us to today's guest. Now, Maya White is a, I don't even know. I feel like, you know,

Maya, I met you on these internet and then you joined us in 2018 when we did Smart

Funny and Black in St. Louis. And, you know, I think, but I think the people in your community

know you as an organizer, as activists, as somebody who is for the people. And, you know,

when it came to the experience of Ferguson, you were on the ground. And I think a lot

of folks only really know about what was going down in Ferguson in 2004. No, 2016.

I don't have a 14. No, I was right. Okay. 2014. I think a lot of people.

14. Yeah. I think a lot of people's knowledge or awareness about what took down, what took

place in Ferguson in 2014 in the wake of the murder of Mike Brown by the police has been

through folks who arrived in Ferguson, not by folks who were there before, during and

...