unapologetically amplifying underrepresented voices
Aleah hordges, founder & ceo
Aleah spent over a decade as an award winning local news anchor reporter across four states. Reporting taught her how a story gets built from nothing. Anchoring taught her how a newsroom decides, story by story, what makes it to air and what gets cut.
Somewhere in that decade, she noticed a pattern she couldn't unsee: minority-owned businesses and their founders rarely made it into that lineup — and when they did, it was almost always the same two stories. A heritage-month feature, or a headline they didn't want.
Vérité House exists because that pattern isn't inevitable. It's a pitching problem — and pitching problems have solutions.
perception isn’t reality—but it decides what reality gets funded, hired and believed.
Every story a newsroom doesn't tell is a story an investor, a customer, or a future employee never hears either. That's the actual cost of the coverage gap — not just visibility, but opportunity.
The businesses filling that gap aren't waiting for permission. They're already doing the work. Ours is making sure the story catches up.