Matt Skallerud has spent more than 30 years working at the intersection of LGBTQ+ media, business, advertising and technology. As president of Pink Media, he helps companies better understand and connect with LGBTQ+ audiences. But his career actually began somewhere quite different: as an engineer.

Matt quickly discovered that staying behind a computer wasn't where he belonged. He was far more interested in getting out into the world, connecting with people and translating complicated ideas into stories people could understand and use.

That curiosity has never really gone away.

At The Porch, Matt will explore the business side of Minnesota's LGBTQ+ community, including the entrepreneurs, companies and ideas shaping it, and how what's happening here connects to a much larger world. After a lifetime spent both personally and professionally within the LGBTQ+ community, he's particularly interested in the voices and stories we sometimes overlook.

Pull up a chair with Matt and the conversation could go just about anywhere: business, technology, travel, what's happening in the world and, inevitably, how it all connects back to our community.