Convos in Color is a Nashville-based multi-platform media and community brand celebrating Black excellence through the power of dialogue. Every platform, every product, every story flows from one animating belief — that conversation changes everything.
"Black excellence isn't a moment. It's a practice. And every conversation we have about it is an act of preservation."Convos in Color · Nashville, TN
Every division of Convos in Color was designed with a single purpose: to make sure Black excellence is heard, seen, worn, read, and felt — across every format and every stage of the conversation.
Convos in Color was founded in 2026 by three Franklin, Tennessee women with a shared conviction: that Black excellence deserves a platform that is as multidimensional as the community it celebrates.
We didn't want a conference or a newsletter. We wanted a living ecosystem — live events that generate content, content that drives community, community that fills rooms, and rooms where stories change people.
Nashville is where it starts. Middle Tennessee is home to over 175,000 Black residents, four HBCUs, and one of the most dynamic Black entrepreneurial ecosystems in the South — with no multi-format platform built to serve it at a premium level.
Convos in Color is that platform. Nashville is the first chapter. The rest follows.
The live heartbeat of the brand. Intimate 2-hour evening gatherings featuring 4–5 carefully selected voices — curated for impact, filmed for legacy, and built to move a room.
Convos in Color events are intimate, curated 2-hour evening gatherings of 100–150 guests. Each speaker is chosen for the story they carry — not their celebrity — and given 12–18 minutes to tell it in whatever format they choose, without padding, and without apology.
Nashville is the inaugural chapter. Each new city carries the Convos in Color brand with its own local identity — Convos in Color Atlanta, Convos in Color Chicago, Convos in Color Houston — following a phased onboarding model. The platform model is maintained across every chapter.
Your story — unfiltered and in full. Long-form conversations with Black leaders, thinkers, and changemakers. 45–75 minutes dedicated to going where the real story lives.
The Convos in Color Podcast is hosted by Jamelle Magee, Esq., Dr. Gretchen Campbell, and Dr. Heather Horton — three Franklin, Tennessee women who believe that the most important conversations happening in Black communities deserve a dedicated platform.
Some episodes extend the Speaker Series. Others tackle current events, business strategy, health equity, relationships, arts, and faith. The flexibility is the point — this is the conversation Black Tennessee is already having, now on a platform built for it.
Free, evergreen video content — the brand's global stage. Every talk told on a Convos in Color stage lives here forever, alongside original series that build the brand between events.
The Convos in Color YouTube channel is designed as a compounding asset — every video adds to an archive that grows in value over time. Speaker talks, community profiles, and original series work together to build the brand between live events.
Conversation-starting streetwear rooted in Black excellence. Every piece is designed to wear the brand's values on the outside — and start the kind of conversations that belong inside a Convos in Color room.
Convos in Color apparel is organized into four distinct collections — each with its own identity, audience, and design language — all unified by the brand's commitment to excellence, community, and Black creativity.
Everyday essentials that carry the brand identity. Clean, wearable, and unmistakably Convos in Color.
Powerful words from Convos in Color speakers and guests — turned into wearable art that carries the message beyond the room.
Limited-run collections co-designed with Black artists, illustrators, and designers — celebrating Black creativity as excellence in its own right.
City-specific pieces for each Convos in Color chapter — celebrating the particular identity and excellence of each community we serve.
Convos in Color apparel is not designed to sit in a drawer. Every piece is conversation-starting by design — wearing the brand's values on the outside and creating openings for exactly the kind of dialogue the brand was built to spark.
A speaker quote on a tee becomes a walking invitation to explain Convos in Color to someone who has never heard of it. That is the merchandise strategy: every item is a recruitment tool for the community.
All apparel production prioritizes Black-owned manufacturers, printers, and fulfillment partners where possible — aligning the supply chain with the brand's values.
The City Collections model also creates an economic opportunity for local Black artists in each chapter city — sharing revenue and credit on every piece they design.
Premium print. Black Tennessee. Distributed free. A fully produced quarterly publication worthy of a coffee table — because Black excellence deserves that kind of permanence.
Convos in Color Magazine is not a newsletter or a program guide. It is a fully produced publication with original editorial content, photography, profiles, essays, and advertising — a physical artifact of Black excellence in Tennessee that people will keep, share, and return to.
Convos in Color Magazine is distributed free throughout Nashville — at events, HBCUs, Black-owned businesses, salons, barbershops, and community organizations. Advertisers gain meaningful access to an engaged, high-trust readership.
| Ad Unit | Rate (Per Issue) | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Back Cover (Full Page) | $2,500 | Premium placement, full color, highest visibility |
| Inside Front / Back Cover | $2,000 | Full page, full color, second-highest visibility |
| Full Page Interior | $1,500 | Full page, full color |
| Half Page | $900 | Half page, full color |
| Sponsored Content Page | $1,800 | Full editorial-style page written by Convos in Color team |
| Annual Partner (4 Issues) | $5,000 | Full-page ad all 4 issues + digital edition + event recognition |
Please contact hello@convosincolor.com if you are interested in being an advertiser.
Convos in Color was founded in Franklin, Tennessee by three women who believe that Black excellence deserves a platform as full and multidimensional as the community it celebrates. This is that platform.
Jamelle Magee is an attorney, mediator, and community builder based in Franklin, Tennessee. She earned her Bachelor of Science from The University of Alabama and her Juris Doctor from LSU Law. Her legal career has taken her from Neighborhood Legal Services to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to Anthem and Elevance Health, one of the largest health insurance companies in America, where she served as Senior Associate General Counsel.
With a career defined by advocacy, precision, and service, Jamelle brings to Convos in Color both the strategic rigor of a seasoned corporate attorney and the deep community commitment of someone who has always believed that the law — and storytelling — are tools for justice.
Dr. Gretchen Campbell is a board-certified neurologist practicing in Franklin, Tennessee. She earned her medical degree from Meharry Medical College School of Medicine — one of the nation's oldest and most storied HBCUs for medical education — and completed her residency training in neurology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
With over 20 years in practice, Dr. Campbell brings to Convos in Color a physician's discipline, a scientist's precision, and a Meharry-trained commitment to community health and Black excellence. She is the owner of KCA Neurology in Franklin.
Dr. Heather Horton is a neurologist and healthcare executive based in Franklin, Tennessee. She earned her medical degree from Meharry Medical College — a distinction she shares with her co-founder Dr. Campbell — and holds an MBA from the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, one of the nation's leading business schools.
Her dual credentials — physician and business strategist — make her a singular voice in conversations about Black health equity, institutional leadership, and what it means to build systems that serve communities that have historically been underserved by them.
Every platform, every product, and every content format at Convos in Color flows from a single animating idea: dialogue is the mechanism through which Black excellence is preserved, celebrated, and transmitted to the next generation.
A speaker talk that moves a room doesn't end when the room empties. It lives on YouTube, gets extended on the podcast, gets covered in the magazine, gets quoted on a tee, and sparks a conversation somewhere that changes something for someone.
That is the Convos in Color model: not content for content's sake, but a living ecosystem designed to make sure the right stories keep being told, keep being heard, and keep changing the people who encounter them.
Nashville is where it starts. The rest follows.