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Friends Like Us


A Podcast featuring women of color with different views on hot topics. 

Apr 4, 2018

Alicia Hall Moran is a mezzo-soprano. A multi-dimensional artist performing and composing between the genres of Opera, Art, Theater, and Jazz. Ms. Moran made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring as Bess on the celebrated 20-city American tour. In partnership with husband and collaborator Jason Moran, she was awarded a 2017 Art of Change fellowship by the Ford Foundation. Her recent album, HERE TODAY, was released December 21, 2017.

Nonye Brown-West is a comedian, producer, and writer working theaters, clubs and colleges in the Northeast. She has been featured in the Boston Globe's Rise column as a Comic to Watch, hosts the Women in Comedy Festival's monthly show, every fourth Thursday at ImprovBoston, and she is a co-producer of the Boston Comedy Chicks. She stars in and produces "Will Smith: The Comedy Variety Show" at the American Repertory Theater's Club Oberon.

Calise Hawkins is a comedian. She has appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Gotham Live, Stand Up in Stilettos, and Nickmom Nite Out. She has written for MTV series Totally Clueless and Girl Code, Comedy Central’s @midnight, Charlemagne’s Uncommon Sense and she wrote on Hood Adjacent with James Davis. She was a cast member of Oxygen’s Funny Girls.

Always hosted by Marina Franklin- Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, and HBO's Crashing