Not Haitian Enough. Not Black Enough.

Greg Maurice moved from Haiti to Brooklyn at 13 with his parents still back home. Black Americans told him he was not black because he was Haitian. White peers told him he should feel good about that. Haitians back home called him a Yankee. He was not enough for either side. So he kept choosing Haiti anyway, in the language he spoke at home, the food he cooked every night, the history he carried into every room. That repeated choice is its own form of reconnection.

Greg became one of the only Black executives in independent film distribution in the country, working with Netflix, HBO, BET, and more. He taught himself English through DMX albums just to find his way into conversations with his Black American friends. And when he saw young Haitian kids at his mother's church who could not imagine building a career like his, he built ZAKA, the career blueprint for first and second generation immigrants that no one built for him.