Iris Nevins on Using Web3 to Empower IRL Communities

Today we have Iris Nevins, the co-founder and CEO of Umba Daima, a creative NFT Studio which also houses Black NFT Art and Unseen Gallery. Before becoming a tech and art entrepreneur, she was a former teacher and community activist who eventually became a software engineer, working at  companies like Mailchimp and Vox Media. In Feb 2021 she left to start Umba Daima, focused on building a multi-cultural ecosystem of educational & social web3 experiences.

Timecodes: 

0:00 - Intro 

1:07 - Web3 Clubhouse beginnings 

3:51 - Iris's background  

11:55 - Umba Daima's genesis 

12:25 - Experience of managing artists  

14:29 - What's the scope of building spaces in web3  

16:19 - Umba Daima as an NFT Studio 

16:37 - Iris's upcoming projects 

21:09 - Will Umba Daima have its own token 

23:34 - Advice entering web3 from a nontraditional tech background 

26:24 - How to work in web3   

28:41 - How IRL events can change the way we onboard people into web3? 

32:42 - The evolution of Umba Daima? 

35:47 - How to fund raising $2M? 

42:31 - Where to find out more about Iris 

44:27 - What's your favorite NFT