“Welcome Home.” These are the first words that Equal Space co-founder and CEO Citi Medina says as he invites folks into the sprawling 19,000-square-foot campus located in downtown Newark. On a bright May morning, as the city comes alive outside, this feels like a homecoming. A transplant from Brooklyn, Medina landed in Newark almost a decade and a half ago and never looked back. Though the city has transformed before his eyes in the past ten years, when Medina first began navigating the city, he realized that despite the wealth of talent, there was no safe co-working space for people of color. He and his co-founder and COO, Ralphie Roman, dared to change that.
Equal Space is much more than a co-working space. In addition to more traditional office-type spaces and desks, between both campuses, there is everything from Trap Art’s retail shop, owned by founder Moustapha Sylla, to a luxe music studio, a podcasting studio, a gym and countless creative spaces. Additional members include Newark’s LGBTQ+ Center, The Bessie Mae Women and Family Health Center and Fitnescity.
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