The treasures we’d never leave behind. The mighty, yet mundane, tokens of a life well lived that we carry with us so that when you’re holding it, even for a brief moment, you can close your eyes and see them sitting beside you.
so you want to talk about White Feminism, a visual guide by @soyouwanttotalkabout, which expertly explores and critiques white feminism dating back to the suffragettes to more recently the Women’s March against Donald Trump, inspired me to dig deeper into where I’m currently struggling in my feminist-meets-anti-racist work. One of the biggest challenges I face as a feminist, who is also a white woman striving…
I built the first half of my career working in corporate marketing, communications, philanthropy and foundation giving. There are wonderful people who work in those sectors who truly want to make a real difference in empowering women, uplifting LGBTQIA+, low income and communities of color, while also providing for themselves and their families. Many use their salaries and connections to give back, manage what’s within…
“It takes a village to raise a child.” This is the era many of us were raised in. It is the basic principal that we leave no one behind in this collective idea that is America. As I’ve learned this first year building Marlin@Large and producing our latest film, it definitely takes a village to achieve the American Dream. Whether that dream be attending college, owning…
While working at Citi Community Development, I had the great privilege of helping build the programs, branding and communications for their company wide Military and Veteran’s initiative Citi Salutes. Whether it was educating veterans on how they could transition their military skills into the civilian workforce through interview strategies and training videos, developing a veteran small business entrepreneurs shark tank or simply sharing stories of…
At the beginning of my career, I was working as a marketing assistant and during a lunch break the conversation turned to that age old 20-something musing, what do you want to be when you grow up? For as long as I can remember I had a very clear picture of what that was. But like most young women looking to break into producing, it…