Corey Gumbs

Founder - Black Podcasters Association

Corey Gumbs is a podcast development strategist and community builder. He works with content creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses to create audience-driven ecosystems based around their podcasts and content delivery platforms.

Also, Corey is the founder of the Black Podcasters Association (BPA). BPA is a community for Black podcast creatives and professionals, providing a network of support and education, for like-minded people.

Furthermore, he is also the founder of BlkPodNews.com, the first podcast industry trade newsletter curated for Black podcast creatives and podcast-adjacent professionals within the podcast industry.

He currently sits on the board of the Association of Independents in Radio, or AIR, a non-profit global community of independent audio producers. AIR’s membership currently has over 1500+ journalists, podcasters, story editors, audio producers, documentarians, engineers, sound designers and media entrepreneurs. You can learn more about the organization and it’s mission, at https://airmedia.org/about.

In addition to running the Black Podcasters Association, Corey also has an extensive background in recording as an independent hip-hop producer. He is a co-founder of Press Record Studios, a full-service podcast and content creation studio located in Westbury, NY.

Corey also co-hosts along with Nya B., the Instagram Live show, PodHour which airs every Tuesday at 6 PM Est. on the Black Podcasters Association’s Instagram account.