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Liane Membis

Liane Membis (born 1990) is a web developer and American internet entrepreneur. She is the founder of BAUCE, an online magazine focused on self-made African American women.

Early life and education

Membis was born in Dallas, Texas but was primarily raised in Atlanta, Georgia. At a young age, Liane had a deep passion for reading, writing and the media; at the age of ten she started a class e-zine that became very popular with her classmates.

Liane received a Bachelor’s of Arts in English and Ethnicity, Race and Migration from Yale University in 2012. During her time at Yale, Liane interned and freelanced for several news organizations and contributed to the student newspaper and other campus magazines.

Career

Liane began her career working digital media. While working the night shifts at a small TV station in New York City, Liane began blogging as a hobby. At the time of launching her blog, the site had no real main themes or direction; it simply churned out digital lifestyle content for African American women. The vision for the site changed as Liane began to progress in her career; she started mirroring her content to match the conversations she was hearing around her. Although there were more sites emerging for women of color, she felt there were very few that were geared towards ambitious black millennial women and helping them succeed financially.

In 2015, Liane founded BAUCE magazine, an online lifestyle site for multicultural self-made women. The site’s mission is to help women from disadvantaged backgrounds and low-income communities overcome obstacles to achieve financial freedom and personal success.

Liane has credited BAUCE as the reason she eventually became a professional web developer. In the early days of working on her site alone, she did not have the cash flow to hire a web developer so she taught herself how to code instead.

Liane went on to work for two major global companies as a web developer and did her first Tedx talk in 2018.