ENODI is a newsletter about first-gens and immigrant people who identify as Black.

I write it, Michael Rain, a writer, speaker, builder, and podcaster. I leverage storytelling and technology to expand the world’s perception of diverse communities.

I founded ENODI to highlight the lives, cultural innovations, and entrepreneurial work of people with immigrant backgrounds. I have a particular interest in the stories of people of African, Caribbean, and Latin descent who identify as Black.

📖 Read about why I started ENODI here.

👀 Watch my TED Talk about ENODI here.

🎧 Listen to The ENODI Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.

More about me

I am a TED speaker whose TED Talk has surpassed 1 million views and is translated in 28 languages. I have delivered keynotes and remarks at the U.S. Department of State, Google, SAP, Santander, Morgan Stanley, Harvard Business School, the Edwin Gould Foundation, and more.

NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, and Upscale Magazine have featured my writing, photography, video, and digital work.

I was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a two-time TED Resident, and a Tow-Knight Fellow at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. I earned a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia.

I am Ghanaian-American, a lifelong New Yorker, and a Brooklyn native on leave in Silicon Valley.

Visit www.michaelra.in for even more about me.