Apr
25
Courage cannot be canceled.
Tax exempt status is not an identity.
When I worked in Afghanistan we had a literacy program we could not
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Latest
Apr
18
Re-gifting.
It is my birthday.
“What do you get the woman who has everything?” my friend asked.
Back in January at
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Apr
11
2 legit 2 tariff
Ambiguity, the absence of transparency and clear channels of accountability is a mechanism to burden the lesser powerful.
There is
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Mar
28
Revolutions are built on trust.
People seek safety in small numbers.
I have a friend whose job is to match study abroad students with host
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Mar
21
Trust is consistency built over time.
Trust is consistency built over time.
Back in 2016-ish, I was on a team of analysts evaluating and assessing a
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Mar
07
Making meaning
In January 2017, I flew to Chicago for the Obama farewell speech. I am someone who deeply dislikes crowds and
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Feb
28
Grief and fearlessness
“Hope is a woman who has lost her fear…” the Alice Walker poem goes.
Hope rises,
She always does,
did
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Feb
21
Stolen scaffolding
An old mentor of mine is one of the world’s leading experts on analyzing extremist and insurgency movements. She
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Feb
14
Love is a verb.
They say love is a verb for a reason.
Last January, I was back in Washington, DC and on my
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Feb
07
The War on Work
Shame is a powerful weapon of control.
Crooked, lying, fake. These are the slurs mainstreamed by Donald Trump to describe
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