Mother’s Day with Monique Greenwood and Glynn Pogue

We’re celebrating Mother’s Day at Macon Library with the first event in our Bed Stuy Neighborhood Series. Accomplished author, entrepreneur, and former Essence editor-in-chief Monique Greenwood will join her daughter Glynn Pogue, winner of the SLICE magazine’s Bridging the Gap Award and VONA Voices fellow, to discuss their own writings, their OWN network TV show Checked Inn, mother and daughter relationships, working mothers, neighborhood businesses, and our community.

Light refreshments will be served.

About Checked Inn 

OWN’s new docu-series Checked Inn, featuring entrepreneur Monique Greenwood and the couples who visit her family-run, upscale bed and breakfast, premiered on Tuesday, November 21. In 1995, Monique Greenwood pursued a newfound love for hospitality by opening her first B&B in Brooklyn, NY while also working as a magazine editor. Then, five very busy years later, she landed a dream job at Essence magazine, the leading publication for African American women. Monique quickly rose to become Editor-in-Chief – even as she continued to run the B&B. Much to everyone’s shock, Monique eventually decided to walk away from her high-profile job at Essence. After juggling two professions for years, she wanted to focus on building the B&B business with her husband, Glenn, with the goal of creating a legacy they could pass on to their daughter, Glynn.

Today, Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns is the most successful B&B business on the east coast and Monique remains the hands-on force behind it. She runs her now four inns the only way she knows how—as the heart and soul, the everything planner and the innkeeper. Ever-helpful, Monique even finds herself offering advice to her guests when they confide in her.