May 13, 2020

Currently on furlough from Matter due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kossoff has sat on brand planning and strategy teams at Imprint Projects, McCann , Ogilvy & Mather and Barbarian Group. It’s not every day that two nonbinary queer people co-host a podcast about advertising. So in between discussing Kossoff’s work on Mastercard’s groundbreaking True Name campaign and nonbinary health and fitness platform Thems Health , Kossoff and host Mary Emily O’Hara joke about astrology and the moral quandaries of working corporate jobs amid the queer community’s anti-capitalist ethos. Nicolette Mason Kossoff also touches on a sticky subject: When you’re a minority in the workplace, it’s easy to be seen as a D&I advocate by default—even when it’s not necessarily the work you set out to do. “For better or worse,” they said, “because I’m a nonbinary person, a queer person, a non-white person … diversity and inclusion has become kind of a de facto role throughout my career.” Subscribe to D&I TBD on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . To learn more about the show, please contact maryemily.ohara@adweek.com . Share