Tah'ki featured in the KC Star

Photo by Kevin Townsend

This week, Kansas City Star contributor Katie Mabry Van Dieren came by the My Cuts Travel studio to talk with me about my business, my upbringing, being featured on Queer Eye, and how I’m trying to change the way we look at barber services.

She wrote a fantastic essay… entitled ‘Cutting edge: How KC barber Tahki Bannister got a ‘Queer Eye’ gig and his own studio’

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Quick Excerpt from the KC

During high school, Bannister excelled as a running back and recalls he was the team barber of the San Mateo Bearcats football team. 

“I cut all the guys’ hair,” he says. “Probably saved the team a bunch of money.” 

He moved to the Midwest to attend Fort Hays State University on an athletic scholarship for football. He graduated from Fort Hays with a Bachelor of Science in Business Communication and a Minor in Leadership. Bannister knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. But before those dreams came true, he made a career in hotel management. 

“Connecting and networking with people has always been my forte,” he says. “I wanted to be a barber years before I became one. It just took some time for me to gravitate towards changing careers.”

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Thanks, Katie Mabry Van Dieren for the article!

Read read the rest of the story: https://www.kansascity.com/makercity-kc/article235000767.html#storylink=cpy