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Episode 16: Real Talk with Designer Spencer Nugent: Embracing My Blackness in America as a Designer and Ex-Mormon (Part I)
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In this episode and the one that will follow, I have a real talk conversation with extremely talented Industrial Designer Spencer Nugent. We talk about his career as a Black Industrial Designer. Spencer sees himself, above all, as a Creative and an Instructor who enjoys sharing his skills and process with tens of thousands of avid designers ready to learn. His online platforms have drawn over a hundred thousand followers from all over the world.
In the following episodes, Spencer opens up and shares very personal experiences to help the listeners understand what he had to overcome in order to fully embrace his Blackness after leaving a Church that believes that God favors the "White, Fair and Delightsome" in its theology - (see Book of Mormon - 2 Nephi 5:21). He shares with us how he overcame this belief he had internalized since he was a child.
Spencer was born and raised in Jamaica and moved to the US as a teen. He currently lives in a community in Utah where he is a double minority being black and non-Mormon. His two young boys are his pride and joy. Spencer also appreciates having close family members living nearby.
I hope that this raw, open, and honest discussion will give new perspectives to the many who may not understand such a unique life experience. I also hope that many hearts and minds will be open to new perspectives when it comes to the lived experience of a Black man in America.
For a full account of Spencer Nugent Growing up in the Mormon Church and Faith Transition Story go to:
https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/spencer-nugent-a-jamaican-mormon-story/
Spencer Nugent's website:
https://advdes.org/spencer-nugent
Follow Spencer on Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/spencer.nugentYoutube
https://www.instagram.com/sketchadaydotcom/
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https://www.youtube.com/user/sketchadaydotcom
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