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Bradley Miles graduated college in February. Unlike many New Yorkers that choose high-power jobs (and insane work-hours), he stayed put and wrote a book. It’s called #BreakintoVC, and it’s a really useful guide that decodes the big world of venture capital. Miles may be young, but he ain’t a newbie to the VC game. In college he started Columbia’s first…
Jump into Lola’s world for a moment. Dance in the wet paint. You’ll feel at ease – it’s colorful, brave, and body positive. Lola Ayisha Ogbara is a Chicago-raised, St Louis-livin’ artist who is shifting body talk to a positive one (not easy). She employs her talent—including illustration, paint, sculpture—to spark conversations on women’s bodies, especially surrounding gender, body size,…
For many, success is achieved through college. For others, it’s defined by a guitar in their hands. Rock idol Bruce Springsteen opted out of the factory-working life that many of his peers followed and tapped into the vibrant interracial music scene of gritty Asbury Park, New Jersey, instead. The child of a lower-class family and a loner in school, it wasn’t…
The people in Yuma, Arizona have deep love for the Colorado River. Milk & Honey is a short film that gives us an intimate look into the lives of these communities, showing us that a modern existence and a life committed to the land can go hand-in-hand. The community speaks of the river as if it were a relative. Local…
Cyan is an entrepreneur who sees her career as a way to pave new opportunities for the formerly invisible. She’s a freakin’ legend in the tech world, known for her prescient investments in a lotta today’s hot shots, like Uber and SpaceX. Now she’s an investor for Founders Fund, a big SF-based investing company. She’s a smart cookie, and a…
Before the Polo Fields, before Hippie Hill and before becoming a staple of the festival circuit, SF’s Golden Gate Park was literally a pile of sand. It was late-19th-century designers, not nature, that created the thousand-acre green space with imported flora and fauna. Even the squirrels were shipped in from the East Coast. At the park’s de Young Museum, artist-in-residence…
She slayed the world of Tejano music – a previously male-dominated genre – and was the first female to win a Grammy in it. Not only that, but Selena was a feminist and philanthropist in her own right. She was very active in the Texas school system, advocating for students to finish high school, and also worked to support women who…
If the constant barrage of bad news has got you feeling like running for the northern border you’re in good company. Teen Vogue’s Jessica Goudeau has the trick to keep standing up without wearing down. Microresistances — a response to those subtle incidents of discrimination called microaggressions —are small actions that when made on the daily chip away at big problems.…
After a decade as leader of America’s deadliest neo-nazi gang Chicago Area Skinheads (CASH), Christian Picciolini found peace. Today, he’s 20 years into running Life After Hate (LAH) – a non-profit dedicated to shining a light on basic human goodness. Isolated and lonely, Christian fell in with CASH early in life. They gave him the attention he craved and the family…
New Sincerity contributing writer Nicole Nordstrom is a student at UCLA. She recently went down to Gladys Park in L.A.’s Skidrow to check out NS partners Eayikes and Skidrow Coffee in action. ⠀⠀ As soon as I entered Gladys Park, I was greeted with a warm hug by Alex Yoon. Alex is one of the founders of Eayikes, an organization…
