Emem Offong

Current job: VP, User Experience Design Lead, JPMorgan Chase

Worst job: Freelance art director, Affluent Page magazine

Quarantine location: Brooklyn, NY 

Quarantine hobby: Making everything in the NYT Cooking app

Book you'd take to a desert island: Anything by Junot Diaz, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Playlists count right? Spotify's Afropop, Release Radar, and New Music Friday.

…while cleaning: Podcasts count right? Pop Culture Happy Hour, Death, Sex & Money, Robinhood Snacks, and Back Issue.

…while creating: Once again, playlists are my jam. Spotify's Classical Focus, Jazz in the Background, and Vissi d'Arte - Opera for Orchestra. I tend to concentrate better listening to music without lyrics.

What inspires you? Music, color, relationships, risk, exercise

Creative crush: Antionette Carroll, Founder, Creative Reaction Lab