Making Bank: Migrants NFT with Lanz

Making Bank: A BanklessDAO Podcast

This episode of Making Bank features Lanz, a content producer, writer, NFT creator, and contributor to Bankless DAO. She is the co-founder of the Migrants NFT project, a project with efforts directed at using art to tell the stories of creatives in migrant worker communities all over the world through the use of NFTs. The team firmly believes that storytelling is an important bridge in helping people better understand and communicate with each other.

Lanz is passionate about bringing the persons in these communities in front of a global audience, where their stories and art can be better appreciated.

Timestamps:

1:54 - Venturing into the NFT space 6:03 - The drive behind the passion12:28 - Raising funds for the cause17:45 - On the global migrant community24:26 - Room for involvement and participation

Links mentioned:Email: [e-mail]: https://twitter.com/migrantsnftWebsite: https://migrantsnft.xyz/

Donate to Migrants NFT via GitCoin Grants:https://gitcoin.co/grants/5140/migrants-nft

See the collections on Foundation.app:https://foundation.app/@migrants

(1:54) Venturing into the NFT space

Lanz believes everyone should have a right to share their story. She speaks about her journey into the NFT space as a newbie. Lanz recalls that she got introduced into the space by a friend who is a photo-journalist, documenting the stories about the migrant worker community. Understanding the passion and zeal which many migrant workers put in to create the future they want for themselves, she believes their stories are worth telling. Lanz aims to use this medium to disrupt stereotypes often assumed about the migrant worker community and to provide a global audience for them to tell their stories.

(6:03) The drive behind the passionLanz narrates a truly inspirational story of a migrant worker whom she works with. Lanz remarks how truly inspiring it is that the persons in these communities are able to keep on creating despite having to work long hours, and in many cases, under strenuous conditions. Lanz mentions the use of NFTs as a bridge to connect persons in these communities to the rest of the world; first by educating them, and then, bringing them on stage to a global audience.

(12:28) Raising funds for the causeAll good projects require funding to thrive. Lanz cites that the project has met the criteria to be included in funding through Gitcoin Grant donation and the NF DAO, which has been useful in covering necessary costs of running the project. Lanz commends the Gitcoin quadratic funding mechanism and cites it as a system that intentionally seeks to promote projects and initiatives that intend the most good. Lanz re-states the potential of the project to be much more than it already is and makes a call to persons who are inspired by the project to join in and grow the community.

(17:45) On the global migrant communityThe struggles of migrants again reiterates, citing challenging working conditions and the strain associated with sending remittances back to their families in their home countries. Lanz states the need to amplify the voices of the people in this community by getting to understand them on a personal level and mapping out ways to support them. She mentions efforts to reach out to creatives in many migrant worker communities across many countries, in an effort to build a strong community.

(24:26) Room for involvement and participationThe Migrants NFT project will be participating in the NFT NYC event scheduled for the 21st and 22nd of June 2022 at the Rug Radio gallery and SuperChief gallery where they intend to showcase their collection from the two projects they have launc