Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is a podcast centering Black sustainability leaders across fashion, agriculture, wellbeing and beyond. Through storytelling, culture, and climate conversations, the show explores how ancestral wisdom and modern practices can cultivate regenerative futures. Hosted by Dominique Drakeford, each episode unearths powerful insights that shift the narrative of environmental justice.
Podcasting since 2025 • 29 episodes
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Latest Episodes
Episode 28 | Jordan King Is a 23-Year-Old Jamaican Scientist With a Master’s in Biology Doing Climate Research in the Everglades While Rockin’ a Nature Grill
Jordan King steps into Compost, Cotton & Cornrows as proof that climate science does not have to be sterile, inaccessible or stripped of culture to be credible. Jamaican-born and trained in Marine Environmental Sciences and Biology...
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Episode 27 | Coochie, Culture & Colonialism: Jazmin Duke Remixes the Alchemy of Herbal Women’s Wellness
Jazmin Duke enters this conversation like a wellness renegade dismantling everything we thought we knew about our bodies, our cravings and the colonial food systems that dictate them. She traces her journey from a painful menstrual cycle to a p...
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Episode 26 | Stories Make Markets: Sherrell Dorsey on Strategies for Funding Futures and the Politics of Climate Tech
Sherrell Dorsey enters this conversation with the certainty and clarity that sustainability is a return to our original intelligence and is the design lab where climate tech, capital, innovation and narrative control decide who gets to build to...
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Episode 25 | Dawn Richard on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina: Ancestral Stories, Modern Colonization & Sustaining Our Power!
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the storm still rages in our collective memory, not just as a natural disaster, but as a state-sanctioned genocide against Black communities in New Orleans. In this powerful conversation, Dominique Drake...
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Episode 24 | She’s Been Fighting for the Planet Since She Was 8 — Now Maya Penn’s Environmental Animated Short Is In Collaboration with Viola Davis & Whoopi Goldberg
In this vivid and electric episode of Compost, Cotton & Cornrows, Dominique Drakeford is joined by the incomparable Maya Penn — youth climate solutionist, award-winning animator, founder, and unapologetic disruptor shifting culture...
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