Stories From The Xeno Files
Nina Roberts is a New York City-based journalist and photographer covering business through the lens of culture and immigration. Her stories chronicle how businesses, especially immigrant-owned, are changing cultures and economies. These stories have been published in The New York Times, Guardian and Grub Street, among other outlets, along with her photos. A selection of Nina’s random street shots and outtakes are on the PHOTOS page.
Small Biz Trends
rebels with jars: Modern Packaged Foods
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH Got Bloat? The Easier To Digest A2 Milk [Read Story]
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH Modern Mexican Food Brands Give Old El Paso The Boot [Read Story]
Food Enterprises & Tech Startups
Design Entrepreneurs & Service businesses
Enterprising Networks
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH How Saint Javelin Plans To Help Rebuild Ukraine [Read Story]
POlicies Impacting Immigrant-owned Businesses
NEW BUILDERS DISPATCH Are Startups a Better Model For Humanitarian Work? [Read Story]
Various & Sundry: the Quasi-archived, UnPublished and Non-Biz Articles
NEW YORK TIMES Party Planners on Pause, Awaiting Revelry’s Return [Read Story]
THE NEW YORK TIMES The Frantic Fun of Hunk-O-Mania, spiked due to covid [Read Story]
