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Professional Jealousy PodcastEp.10 / Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, Founder & CEO, One Love Community FridgeBuilding Community to Do Good for the Community:Asmeret Behr-Lumax is a force for positive change, with a deep commitment to social justice and giving back. She’s the founder and CEO of One Love Community Fridge, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing food insecurity and increasing access to healthy foods. She is also a passionate advocate for girls empowerment as board chair of Dream Maker and its Phenomenal Girls Club, and she’s been recognized as a UN Women Champion of Change. I’ve known Asmeret quite a long time, and always admired her st...
2025-04-2445 min
This Is TASTEAsmeret Berhe-Lumax Is Fighting Hunger with One Love Community Fridge
Asmeret Berhe-Lumax is the founder of One Love Community Fridge, a network of ten community refrigerators across New York City and Seattle working to eradicate food insecurity. Its work is more urgent than ever, and it’s so special to have Asmeret into the studio to talk about fighting hunger and the stigma associated with it, and about One Love Community Fridge’s big plans for expansion. Also on the show we have the big grocery news of the week. Poppi was acquired by Pepsi and we’re joined by Andrea Hernández of Snaxshot to talk about wh...
2025-03-2151 min
Boardroom BeautyBuilding & Engaging a Black Beauty Community with The Black Beauty Club Co-Founders Tomi & AsmeretThe Black Beauty Club Co-Founders, Tomi Talabi & Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, give us the build to their current success in co-founding an international black beauty community. The Black Beauty Club is a community born from the pandemic, originating on the Clubhouse app. It has since flourished into in-real-life events and forums as well as an active online community. The purpose of The BBC community activations are to "drive insightful thought leadership & cultural conversations around the Black Beauty space". Topics discussed are alway timely, relevant, and often requested by their members. Engagement and trust have been paramount factors to the growth and...
2024-05-151h 00
The Charisse ReportEp. 219: Feeling burnt out and co-hosting The Black Beauty Club in LondonThis week it’s a very unscripted, minimally edited episode about two things that have been on my mind. First of all; burnout. I am FEELING it! Listen in and let me know if you’re feeling the same.
The second segment is all about the value of the Black Beauty Club. Formed by two New York based women, Tomi Talabi and Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, the Black Beauty Club first emerged on Clubhouse, the audio chatroom app that took over our lives at the height of the pandemic in 2020, and today it is a real life event taking place regularly in N...
2023-10-1330 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 190: Come Chop with Stanley LumaxGreetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast I have the pleasure of hosting a social innovator who intersects not only my local experiences in Brooklyn and Accra, he is the husband of my guest on Episode 139, Asmeret Berhe-Lumax and on the Advisory Committee of Episodes 42/43 guest, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo’s African Health Now. A fellow Ghanaian, Stanley Lumax is currently the Executive Brand Marketing Director at JP Morgan Chase, where he manages the Sapphire and Freedom Unlimited portfolios. Prior to this role, he partnered with Complex Media Networks to create Climate, an agency built to help brands ha...
2023-09-0547 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 139: Connecting Communities with Asmeret Berhe-LumaxGreetings Glocal Citizens!
This week is all about the "local" in glocal. I'm hosting longtime friend, neighbor and soon to be public official, Asmeret Berhe-Lumax. Asmeret was born in Asmara, Eritrea, raised in Stockholm, Sweden and now calls Brooklyn, New York home. She is a dynamic team player with extensive domestic and international experience, she is a hands-on leader in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings developing and executing strategic plans encompassing client goals and translating them into an efficient and profitable production structure. She channels these skills as founder of the One Love Community Fridge project, a community-based...
2022-08-2342 min
AmerikabrevetAsmeret Berhe-LumaxI det här avsnittet möter vi Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, grundare av One Love Community Fridge. Hon jobbar normalt med mode, både med svenska och amerikanska märken, men under COVID startade hon One Love Community Fridge. En ideell organisation som placerar ut kylskåp på gatan runt om i Brooklyn där hon bor. Till kylskåpen får vem som helst komma och hämta eller lämna färsk frukt och grönsaker, ekologisk mat, dryck och matlådor helt gratis. One Love ger fler vuxna och barn tillgång till mat under ett år då många drabbat...
2021-05-2050 min
SvengelskaAsmeret Berhe-LumaxDagens gäst heter Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, hon är filantrop, mode executive, mamma, och tränings enthusiast. Asmeret är den moderna varianten av den Amerikanska drömmen där allt är möjligt om du jobbar hårt, går din egen väg och har hjärtat på rätt ställe. Vi är riktigt peppade på att dela detta avsnitt med er.EnjoyProgramledare:Emon MaashoLove BertilssonSupport till showen http://supporter.acast.com/svengelska. Hosted on Acast...
2021-05-0948 min
Financially NakedFinances of Community Fridges During COVIDEmily Egan, Business Development Manager at The Gym has been a consistent donator to community fridges during the pandemic and wanted to learn about the upfront costs of starting a community friedges, the benefots (financial and otherwise) of a fridge and what the future of community friedges might be. To answer her questions, she speaks to Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, a fashion and beauty executive and founder of One Love Community Fridge in Brooklyn, NY. Fridges, or "freedges," can be found all over big cities and people can help themselves to whatever they need. The concept behind the fridges is simple. I...
2021-01-1926 min