Trojan Tale: Jacki Cisneros

08/15/21 • 3 min

The names Gilbert & Jacki Cisneros are more than just a name displayed on the USC Annenberg Media Center’s Assignment Desk. Jameela Hammond and Jacki Cisneros both worked the Assignment Desk at KNBC. One day, while Jacki was preparing to send her resume out, told Jameela, “I wish I would just win the lotto.” Days later, Jacki and her husband, Gilbert Cisneros won the California Mega Lottery jackpot — $266 million.

Jacki loves to play the “What if” game, when she poses a hypothetical question to her husband who never loves to play the game. On their way to Outback Steakhouse, they passed by the local Lottery office and Gilbert decided to play the game. Their “What if” turned into a discussion of how they want to give back to their alma maters and their community. They did exactly that when they won the lottery, establishing The Gilbert & Jacki Cisneros Foundation, dedicated to increasing the education level of Latino students.

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BE THE MATCH w/ Jared Lipscomb [Leukemia Warrior/Be The Match Ambassador, Celebrity Makeup Artist & Podcast Host of Back On Air]

EPISODE 87
JUNE 30, 2021

BE THE MATCH

✨🏳️‍🌈 JARED LIPSCOMB [Celebrity Makeup Artist, Podcast Host of Back On Air & @bethematch Ambassador] joins to talk how he found out he was diagnosed with leukemia, how he almost didn’t get his transplant in time, need for diversity in bone marrow registry, the LGBTQ+ community is welcome to donate with Be The Match vs. blood donation verbiage with others, and more!

We play STORYTIME to create names for makeup lines with a country twist with Diet Dr. Pepper & 805 Beer!

WATCH: https://youtu.be/95Wh4E-GMpY
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/be-the-match
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ABOUT:
✨🏳️‍🌈 Jared Lipscomb is a celebrity makeup artist, host of the podcast Back On Air, and as of april 2021 a Leukemia Survivor. He uses his platform to share his beauty work as well as to advocate for the queer cancer community by spreading awareness for Be The Match. As an ambassador, he is focusing on diversifying the bone marrow registry and spreading the importance of signing up. Jared loves chihuahuas, the color pink and Britney Spears.
@jaredlips
#bethematch

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Show Intro

1:30 Jared Lipscomb Intro

3:25 Meet Jared Lipscomb

8:50 Growing up around the south to moving to Florida

11:50 finding confident gay kids at his high school

13:20 Moving to LA from Florida

14:40 power of positive thinking

going from the Venice bubble to how his philanthropy got him started as a makeup artist

22:00 when he began to feel sick and found out he was diagnosed w/ leukemia

30:00 how he almost didn’t get his transplant in time w/ the travel ban

34:00 what it was about pop music that got him through that also helped him with his breathing

37:20 Drinking Game: STORYTIME remix, making up cosmetic lines with a southern twist

55:00 importance to Be The Match for someone that needs a transplant.

59:00 donating blood

Process of how to find if you’re a match
Process of donating blood (not intrusive)
What being on a private registry means
How Be The Match is lgbtq+ friendly

1:06:16 Words of Wisdom

The mantra that I lived by in the midst of the most suffering that I was going through with my cancer treatment.

This is temporary. For me it meant, that pain, suffering and hardship of what I was going through, that it was all temporary. If you’re going through a rough patch, remember it’s temporary.

1:08:00 fighting laws that homophobic legislature and language in donating blood.

homoglobin is fighting for the LGBTQ+ community

1:10:00 outro

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THE BLACK CATALYST SHOW: CHICAGO'S DARLINGS [S1 EP1]

THE BLACK CATALYST SHOW
SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: CHICAGO'S DARLINGS
In this episode, we visit Chicago’s inspiring Black Queers. From LGBTQ+ news headlines to the narrative feature that takes a closer look at what makes Nobody’s Darling a unique experience as the second Black Queer, woman-owned bar in the United States including an interview with Black lesbian pioneers and Chicago LGBT Hall of Famers, Pat McCombs and Vera Washington who are critical to lesbian bar history in Chicago and fought racist carding in the 1970s. They also created Executive Sweet which began as a Lesbian-only “traveling club” (bar takeover/pop-up bar event).

Host/Audio Editor: Jameela Hammond

Videographer/Video Editor: Brooke Coleman

Video: https://youtu.be/WxSID0vezlA

Follow @theblackcatalyst for more information.
YouTube.com/JAMPACKED

ABOUT:

THE BLACK CATALYST SHOW is an audio/video podcast show focusing on inspiring Black Queer stories discussing identity, coming out, navigating through microaggressions/discrimination, LGBTQ+ community, safe space, and more.

Black Queer folx have been the changemakers, but their stories don’t always receive front-page coverage. George Floyd’s death united people to stand for racial justice and LGBTQ rights throughout the world. Chanting — Black Lives Matter led to the rallying cry that— All Black Lives Matter. It was important for the Black community to reconcile – at long last – the way it has ignored the three layers of marginalization that its Queer folx experience because anti-Black racism couldn’t be dismantled without also dismantling homophobia, transphobia, etc. Black LGBTQ leaders have been at the forefront of change, including Alicia Garza and DeRay Mckesson. The Gay Liberation Day march that turned into the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York was spearheaded by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Queer people of color and trans activists. Bayard Rustin, was a Black gay civil rights activist and mastermind of the Civil Rights Movement's major campaigns, such as the March on Washington. Rustin was also an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s and ‘60s. As the documentary The Same Difference shows, BIPOC LGBTQ+ in relation to White LGBTQ+ are very different in representation and their cultural differences. Now, the first Black (Queer) woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing, Lena Waithe, has been instrumental in pushing Hollywood for more Black Queer representation.