Lana Reid

Lana Reid is the founder of Conversations in Color, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, documenting, and amplifying Black voices through meaningful conversation, education, and media. She is the creator and host of The Male Perspective, an interview series featuring more than 200 conversations with Black men from across the United States discussing leadership, fatherhood, entrepreneurship, education, health, faith, relationships, and community.

Reid is also the facilitator of Sistas Rebuilding Sisterhood, an intergenerational initiative that brings Black women together for honest, non-judgmental conversations focused on healing, leadership, identity, relationships, and strengthening community through meaningful dialogue.

She is the creator of the Tapestry of Black Voices Awards, a national initiative recognizing authentic conversations that preserve Black history, culture, and lived experiences through community storytelling.

With more than seven years of interviewing community leaders, educators, nonprofit executives, physicians, military veterans, business owners, elected officials, and advocates, Reid has become a respected voice on Black community engagement, nonprofit leadership, community storytelling, cultural preservation, Black leadership, Black men, Black women, intergenerational dialogue, and media representation.

She regularly speaks on Black communities, leadership, community building, nonprofit innovation, oral history, civic engagement, media representation, documentary storytelling, and preserving local history through conversation.

Her work has been featured through podcasts, documentaries, streaming platforms, the Internet Archive, IMDb and numerous digital media outlets, contributing to one of the largest independent archives of long-form conversations documenting contemporary Black experiences.