Taja Cheek is an extraordinary talent, her personal and professional career exhibit high levels of artistic integrity, empathy, and professionalism. She walked-out on her original major in school and into college radio, and from there built on her family’s creative entrepreneurial roots, getting involved with Creative Time, basement shows, The High Line, MoMA, and unnamable lofts. We originally spoke in late April of 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, job situations, family needs, etc this whole project got put on hold for a while. While it’s now October, most of what we spoke about still rings true.