What do you do when you’re the founder of a travel tech startup whose mission is to connect blacks all around the world to the Continent when a global pandemic cancels flights, closes borders, and brings tourism to a complete halt?
If you’re Cherae Robinson, founder of Tastemakers Africa, you take a moment to breathe and then you get back to doing what you do best—bringing people together, even if that now means virtually.
Travel was one way I could solve this problem of people in the diaspora and on the continent being disconnected, but it wasn’t the only solution.
The Thread as a convening space really proved to us that people were always coming to us for more than travel, but we were only giving them one way to engage with us.
It’s a networking opportunity with other high powered, high energy people who are committed to this connection to the continent.
