DBC, the story
Our vision began with a strong partnership. Different strengths, perspectives, and backgrounds but shared values, direction, and purpose.
Chika Ekemezie
Chika is a Brooklyn-based comedian, talk show host, producer, and narrative strategist who specializes in making the important stuff accessible. As the host of Do It Live w/ Chika, she produces and hosts a high-energy late night talk show that builds community while maintaining a fresh comedic voice and viewpoint. As the Communications Director at Donors of Color Network, she leads the narrative strategy for the nation’s first cross-racial donor network, holding its voice and developing all of its external programming.
Viv Tran
Viv is a system tinkerer who uncovers how processes work to reimagine them to be more accessible and reliable for everyone. She has built the communications infrastructure and conducted several advancement research projects for various nonprofits. She brings a decade of experience in nonprofit strategic communications, policy management, and data-driven philanthropic consulting to her client work. She is also deeply practiced in eastern massage, medicine, and meditation which shapes how she builds systems.
Together, we wanted to help organizations show up in the world with a message that is unmistakably their own.
We built Do Better Comms to help organizations actually reach people and do better work.
Our name is a double entendre. It’s a mantra that asks us to push ourselves into places of persuasion and positions of powerbuilding.
We’re demanding that we do better so that we can have better.

