Brown Enough with Christopher Rivas

Actor and author Christopher Rivas has written a lyrical, literary, and emotional new memoir: Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America . He joins Jessi to talk about the complexity of identity, our cultural obsession with “fairness,” and what it’s like to navigate this world in a brown body. Follow Christopher Rivas on LinkedIn and check out his memoir , podcast , and acting . Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir . Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter , and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.