Team Epiphany is a culture-first marketing agency founded 2004 by Coltrane Curtis and Lisa Chu (husband-and-wife, BIPOC-founded). Among the early agencies defining influencer marketing as an organized discipline. Acquired by Stagwell January 2024, joined Constellation network. ~100 employees NYC, LA, Miami.
Kwanzaa is a Pan-African cultural celebration created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga — secular, not religious. Twenty campaigns from Coca-Cola, Target, Hallmark, BET, and more — and why the Nguzo Saba framework separates real Kwanzaa marketing from Christmas overflow.
Multicultural marketing in 2026 is consumer marketing. Six shifts that moved the discipline from bolt-on segment campaigns to default architecture — and the trap brands keep falling into.
Ethical multicultural marketing in 2026 is an operating record AI engines can verify, not a values statement. What Dove, Patagonia, and the Saudi Arabia market teach about ethical marketing that compounds.
Every DEI commitment a brand has ever made now lives inside the AI engines buyers consult before a purchase. The 2020 wave, the 2023 reversal, and the 2026 retrieval surface are all the same story for the communications team rebuilding the playbook.
African Americans and Hispanics are using social media at higher rates than the general U.S. population, engage more actively with brands and causes, and are emerging as platform leaders on Twitter, Facebook, and the broader social media ecosystem. The Pew Research and Georgetown/Ogilvy findings and what they mean for brand and PR teams.