SGV Tribune Op-Ed: In Defense of Participation Trophies
My op-ed on participation trophies recently ran in SCNG papers, including my hometown SGV Tribune and Pasadena Star News. https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2023/02/25/in-defense-of-participation-trophies/
BBD A Guest on SGV Master Key Podcast
This was an occasion to talk growing up in the hood, studying philosophy, making media and slanging coffee. Dive in. https://youtu.be/PBdFPQvunAk
Ad Age Op Ed: Latinx or Nah?
I enthusiastically share my thoughts on identity terms in advertising with Ad Age. As a bonus, this ran in the print edition, too. Hispanic-Latino-Latinx-Latine-Heritage-Month-is-here—why-brands-may-be-calling-it-the-wrong-name-_-Ad-AgeDownload
SGV Tribune Op-Ed: Dads Should Be More Like Moms
This first appeared in in The San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Pasadena Star News. The best dads work hard. And after nearly three years of parenting during a pandemic, the data demonstrates we’ve worked even harder. But don’t kick off those boots just yet. Indeed,...
ABOUT BIG BROWN DAD
Big Brown Dad is a comedic fatherhood blog written from the perspective of a Mexican-American dad living, loving and learning in Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Valley.
Big Brown Dad is Carlos Aguilar, a content strategist and cultural creative whose written and produced reality TV, travel, talk and award shows, documentaries, commercials, branded content platforms and social media campaigns. He’s worked with A&E, Fox, Lifetime, Hallmark, Telemundo, PBS, Sony, Wells Fargo, Honda, Steve Harvey, Mariah Carey, and Magic Johnson, to name a few.
Carlos has a BA from Occidental and an MA in the Philosophy of Religion & Ethics from Talbot School of Theology. As a hip hop artist known as Bookworm Brown, he’s performed across the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, China and Japan. He recently founded mestizo.coffee as means of exploring his passion for food, history and story telling. He’s Editorial Director at Quantasy, an agency in Los Angeles.
