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Meet Gina Correll Aglietti
Meet Gina Correll Aglietti

Gina Correll Aglietti has built a life around communing with others through food and music, and her spirit for entertaining is entrenched in her life's work as a founder of Yola Mezcal. Though Gina sees it as in part "a blessing" that socializing is so central to her life and career, it also means that seeking quietude requires focus. When moments of calm do present themselves, Gina's often found passing by the Silver Lake Reservoir, where she walks her pup Donny — a companion who "doesn't want to party." On a spring afternoon, we caught up with her to hear about how she views her home as a morphing entity, what goes into making handcrafted mezcal, and her secrets on how to throw a stellar dinner party.

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EntrepreneurClemence PolesLA, Silverlake Comment
Reality Bites with Anna Polonsky
Reality Bites with Anna Polonsky

A true food-lover, Anna Polonsky has spent much of her life tasting everything under the sun, and her career, supporting "those who use food as a beacon for change." Right now, that's through her strategy and design consultancy, Polonsky & Friends, and platform, The Deligram, which are both run out of the creative co-working space, OSTUDIO. You're most likely to find Anna there during the day — unless she's out sampling the neighborhood's Dominican eats for lunch. Read on as the French native digs into childhood summers spent on her family's farm, why she's bored by pretentious views on food, and the lively dream dinner guests she wishes she could host (Monet included).

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Entrepreneur, Creative DirectorClemence PolesNYC, BedstuyComment
Life in 10 Tracks with Zenat Begum
Life in 10 Tracks with Zenat Begum

Life in 10 Tracks is a new feature series that is all about being injected into a moment in someone’s life through music. In it, passersby reminisce on the tracks that remind them of bad haircuts, breakups, and all of the joyful, poignant moments in between. Up first is Zenat Begum, activist, and founder of Playground Coffee Shop and its branches Playground Annex and Playground Youth. Together, her organizations support the community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn by providing accessible programming geared towards tackling needs like literacy, food equity, and arts & culture. Music has always played a prominent part in Zenat’s life, and under her umbrella too, is Playground Radio, “an independent internet radio station” that provides a platform for artists for are underserved in her community.

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Activist, EntrepreneurClemence PolesLife in 10 Tracks, NYC Comment
Camera Roll with Zoe Cohen
Camera Roll with Zoe Cohen

If you stop into Poppy’s for a morning coffee, you’ll likely catch Zoe Cohen there doing the same before heading home to work. Along with her boyfriend Levi, Cohen runs Wiggle Room — a furniture studio the couple founded after having a hard time finding an ideal coffee table. So now, they make wiggly, colorful tables together. As day turns to evening, you might pass Zoe by while walking around Soho and the Lower East Side or dining at The Odeon, Roman’s, or The Long Island Bar (which, contrary to what you may suspect, is not on Long Island). Read on as Zoe recounts the ups and downs of throwing herself into work, her recent month-long trip to Italy, and her newfound passion for chili crisp.

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Entrepreneur, Creative Brand Strategist, Furniture DesignerClemence PolesCamera Roll, NYCComment
Meet Kimberley Ho
Meet Kimberley Ho

Investment banker turned clean beauty entrepreneur, Kimberley Ho is the co-founder of Evereden, a clean skincare line for the whole family. Originally from Malaysia, Kimberley studied Economics and Creative Writing at Stanford University before embarking on a career in private equity and entrepreneurship.

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EntrepreneurClemence PolesTribeca, NYCComment
Meet Ara Katz
Meet Ara Katz

Ara Katz is a true multi-hyphenate: storyteller, designer, entrepreneur, question-asker, activist, dot connector, and — most recently — the co-creator of Seed. She opens up about her early entrepreneurial streak, the intersection of science and art, motherhood, and the bacteria that led her here.

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EntrepreneurClemence PolesVenice, LAComment