Maurice Cherry is an accomplished creative strategist who received the AIGA’s Steven Heller Price for Cultural Commentary in 2018 and in the same year was listed as one of The Root’s 100 most influential African Americans. We talked about Maurice’s mission to increase the profile of Black people in the creative industry through his podcast, Revision Path, his thoughts on diversity in the creative industry and how he went from the captain of the math team in high school to pursuing a career in design.

In this month’s episode of the Podcast Insider, we are joined by Maurice Cherry, host of the award-winning Revision Path podcast to discuss what it takes to be a really great podcast host and interviewer. As you listen, you’ll come to find that there are some key things to keep top of mind while recording your episodes as well as ways to improve your performance on the microphone.

This week, we traded emails Maurice Cherry, host of the podcast Revision Path, episodes of which reside in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture permanent archives. Other projects of Maurices’ include the Black Weblog Awards, 28 Days of the Web, The Year of Tea, and the design anthology RECOGNIZE. He was also honored by our sister site in 2018's The Root 100.

Bézier is a design interview podcast amplifying voices in our creative communities that don’t already have large platforms and aren’t working at the big 5 tech companies. We focus on finding guests from all over the world and representative of as many of us as possible—not your average podcast guests!

5 questions with Maurice Cherry: Head of Media at Glitch, and a new member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, judging the 24th Annual Webby Awards!