Kevin Huynh
Co-Host
he / him
At work:
Kevin is a founding partner at People & Company and co-author of Get Together. An engineer with an artist’s spirit, he has brought an ops mindset to community-driven organizations for the last decade.
Kevin has coached 100+ grassroots leaders on structuring and scaling their groups. In the past, he operationalized CreativeMornings, rolling out events to 100+ cities. Today, he’s an advisor to Edcamp, Merit, and Namebase.
At play:
Kevin makes videos and maintains a directory of Kevin Huynhs.
Kevin’s EpisodeS:
A live interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh with Claire Wasserman, co-founder of Ladies Get Paid. Ladies Get Paid has connected 75,000 women on their mission to close the wage gap.
We talked with Claire in front of a live Zoom audience about how she has supercharged women across the country to be advocates for their worth and her new book, titled Ladies Get Paid.
An interview hosted by Marjorie Anderson and Kevin Huynh with Sophie Mona Pagès, the founder of LVRSNFRNDS, a community platform where strangers come to know each other through live conversations on everything modern relationships.
We talked with Sophie about how to start such conversations—finding strangers and guiding their early connections—and transferring those connections online.
An interview hosted by Bailey Richardson & Kevin Huynh with Joe Smith, Program Quality Director for District 38 of Toastmasters. Today there are more than 364,000 paying members around the world. One in three of those members also serves as a volunteer.
We talked with Joe about Toastmasters history and evolution of Toastmasters International.
An interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh with Colombe Cahen-Salvador, Andrea Venzon, and Laura Giani, the leaders behind NOW! a global, digital-first movement bringing people from all over the world together to tackle global issues. Colombe and Andrea forged the movement as co-founders and Laura is a volunteer turned campaign manager.
We talked with them about finding a common call to action: the common reason WHY your people continue you to show up.
A live interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh with Carla Fernandez, co-founder, and Mary Horn, community manager, of The Dinner Party, a worldwide community of 20- and 30-somethings who have each experienced the loss of a loved one.
We talked with Mary and Carla in front of a live Zoom audience about how this year they’ve transitioned Dinner Parties taking place around the world to virtual tables, and added 70 new tables in the process.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Steve Garguilo, partner at Cultivate, which helps organizations unlock their full potential and bring their culture to life.
We talked with Steve about his early career at Johnson & Johnson and his work now at Cultivate, sparking company culture shifts from the ground up.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Kibi Anderson who empowered the viewers of “Red Table Talk” to have raw, honest conversations like on the show in their own lives.
We talked with Kibi about why the show sparked a community as well as the tools and support her team offered their community's leaders.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Nate Nichols and Steffi Behringer of Allyship & Action. Over the past year, their creative production house, Palette Group, has met uncertainty with community building—creating the Freelancers Cyber Summit to make sense of the ad industry during the pandemic and Allyship & Action in response to George Floyd’s death.
We talked with Nate and Steffi about the role of storytelling, brand, and live events in bringing people together for collective action.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Isis Miller, Community and Events Manager at Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit organization that provides young Black girls a tech education and access to peers who share their passions.
We talked with Isis about what this work means for her personally, as well as how the organization has gone virtual with online workshops and panels this year, and finally, what a meaningful partnership with Black Girls CODE looks like.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Laura Nestler, builder of the early Yelp community and current VP of Community at Duolingo.
We talked with Laura about why she’s stuck with community work for 15 years, the community playbook she developed and implemented around the world while at Yelp, and ruthlessly testing shared activities on all variables--location, timing, size, and qualifications for the leader.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Fiona Monga, Head of Writer Partnerships, and Nadia Eghbal, Writer Experience, at Substack.
We talked with Fiona and Nadia about connecting writers and how they notice, validate, and codify what works on the platform to help writers succeed.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with "financial hype woman" Berna Anat. Berna leads Hella Helpful, a free workshop that sparked a community of BIPOC and first-gen children of immigrants who talk finance.
We talked with Berna about leading with transparency and role modeling how you want community members to show up.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Bree Nguyen, a Mariah Carey superfan turned “Lamb” community cultivator.
In this episode, we sit back, listen, and laugh, as Bree’s shares her bonkers story. Bree went from a 16-year-old Mariah Carey superfan to working for her idol overnight, rallying “Lamb” fans online who supercharged the superstar's career. Bree shares what she learned cultivating fan communities around Mariah and later Michelle Branch, Lincoln Park, and more as Head of Partnerships at Facebook.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Kat Vellos, author of “We Should Get Together” and founder of Bay Area Black Designers.
We talked with Kat about cultivating deep friendships in a sea of busy, mobile people and sparking community in otherwise isolating situations.
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Lindsay Russell who led Facebook's investments in some of the platform's most active and important users: Group Power Admins.
We sat down with Lindsay to learn more about her experience spearheading Facebook’s big pivot towards supporting admins who were cultivating communities.
An interview with Hema Karunakaram & Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, two of the volunteers behind Letters for Black Lives.
In the weeks following George Floyd’s death, Hema Karunakaram and Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani joined hundreds of first generation Americans and Canadians to draft templates for conversations with elders around anti-blackness and racism. In this interview, Hema and Adrienne share how people from all over are working together with peers and elders to provide translated blueprints for these conversations.
Giving circles are a simple but powerful community-building format. Groups of people get together to pool their money, then direct it towards issues they collectively care about–think Queer Youth Fund or the African American Giving Circle.
Today, we’ve put together an episode with two experts that will share what it takes to start and sustain a giving circle.
After an early career in grassroots climate organizing, Casper earned masters degrees in Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard. While there, he started a reading community around the Harry Potter texts, that has grown to more than 70 chapters and millions of podcast listeners around the world.
In this episode, we will go deep on two things Casper knows a lot about: rituals and communal reading.
Tim Courtney was a key part of a monumental shift at LEGO that opened the private company up to their fans all around the world. For seven years, Tim was the steward behind LEGO IDEAS, a crowdsourcing platform that allows superfans to submit and vote on new ideas they want LEGO to bring to market.
Curious about creative, meaningful ways companies can collaborate with their customer communities online? Look no further than Tim.
Today we're interviewing Dr. Gbemisola Boyede, the founder of Ask The Paediatricians, an online medical education community that can offer all of us some much-needed inspiration in the time of COVID-19.
What stuck out from our conversation with Dr. Gbemi was how natural her community-building instincts were. No matter if your community gathers online or off, the secret to community building isn't about management, it's about creating leaders.
Today we're interviewing Kelsa Trom, Head of Programming at NEW INC. NEW INC is the first museum-led "cultural incubator." The New Museum here in New York City opened the program in 2013 as a home artists, activists, futurists and technologists.
In this episode, we ask Kelsa about the work she and her team prioritize to bind and support the members in the space.
Today we’re talking to Nitika Chopra, organizer of Chronicon, a conference that brings together hundreds of people with chronic illnesses.
In this interview, we'll learn more about Nitika's journey and how she went about designing the specifics of Chronicon–from the space to food—to make sure folks with chronic illnesses felt honored.
Today we’re talking to Scott Amenta, co-founder of the COS Tech Network, a community of people working as Chiefs of Staff in companies around the world. The COS Tech Network started in 2016 when Scott found himself as a Chief of Staff, a role that quite is new in techland, and, for Scott, felt somewhat undefined.
Tune in to learn more about how Scott got COS Tech Network off the ground, and what tools the extremely organized group uses to communicate, collaborate, and connect.
Today we’re talking to Erin Wayne, or @Aureylian as she’s known on the internet. Six years ago, Erin was brought on as the first pure community hire at Twitch.
We’ll dig into the story of how Erin came to work at Twitch, her early projects there, and two remarkable community programs she’s led: Twitch ambassadors and meetups.
Today we’re talking to Catt Small, a product designer, game maker, developer and–most importantly for today’s podcast–one of the organizers of the Game Developers of Color Expo (GDOC).
On the podcast we’ll hear more from Catt about why she and her collaborators started GDOC in the first place AND she’ll share her secrets about how they’ve been successful with finding sponsors.
Today we’re talking to Lennon Flowers and Carla Fernandez, co-founders of The Dinner Party, a worldwide community of 20- and 30-somethings who have each experienced the loss of a loved one.
The Dinner Party tables are regularly meeting in nearly 100 cities around the world, from Milwaukee to Tel Aviv. Most of their 275 tables gather at a host’s house over a potluck. To attend, everyone involved must fill out an application, which the team at HQ reviews by hand, carefully matching each person to a table near them.
Today we’re talking to Jay Herratti, the Executive Director of TEDx. TED gave its audience the chance to co-create with them through TEDx, volunteer hosted events of TED like talks that happen in communities around the world.
In our interview, we talk to Jay about the origin of TEDx and how the organization has evolved the support it offers TEDx organizers over the last 10 years.
Today we’re talking to Camille Ricketts, the superstar Head of Marketing for Notion. Notion is an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, project management and task management. Most importantly, Notion is modular. People can remix and reuse the templates they offer to create their own powerful tools.
Since Camille started as Head of Marketing, she and her team have invested in Notion superusers, swelling their ranks and meetup numbers in the name of educating even more Notion-curious people about what the platform is capable of. Tune in for the full story.
Jeff Kirschner kickstarted a community of people around the world who are picking up the trash on our streets, parks, beaches, and more. They call themselves Litterati.
Some of the members of the Litterati community pick up hundreds, even thousands, of pieces of trash EACH DAY. To date, the cumulative impact is remarkable: 145,000+ people in the Litterati community have picked up 4.2 million pieces of trash.
An interview hosted by Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh with Todd Hansen. For ten years, Todd led conference programming at South by Southwest, the annual film, interactive media, and music festival held in Austin, Texas. Recently, Todd and friends started the Artist Rescue Trust to support musicians, artists, and creatives affected by the pandemic.
We talked with Todd about how the SXSW team has built the conference over the years with attendees and how he tapped existing motivation in starting the Artist Rescue Trust.