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BART’s (Bay Area Rapid Transit) most recent campaign “Bay Area Rides Together” gets loud and proud about inclusivity. Their posters in stores, businesses, and BART cars all over the Bay rep the quote “On this train, everyone is welcome.” Hundreds of thousands of riders see this everyday. “[The public] wanted us to reaffirm that BART is a safe place for…
When Hollywood starts showing people like her as someone to strive for, we know a shift is taking place. Patty Jenkins, the director of the movie that has us swooning, is the superhero behind the superhero. “I wasn’t directing a woman, I was just directing a hero,” Jenkins told the New York Times. “I wanted to tell a story about…
Food stamps, an assistance program enacted in the 60s, helps more than 40 million Americans afford groceries. For many, this is the factor that determines whether a kid gets to eat that day. Trump’s budget cuts the program by more than 25%. That’s about 10 million fellow Americans who will be going to bed hungry. In an article for Christianity Today,…
David Delmar, founder and executive producer of Resilient Coders knows that sustainable social justice can’t be achieved just by charity – economic empowerment is the ticket. Talent doesn’t always equal success. From the get-go, even the most ambitious people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and young adults of less economic advantage don’t have equal access to education, exposure, and opportunity. Resilient…
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,…
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…
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…
Resilient Coders believes that – no matter their history – every kid deserves a fair shake at success. They’re hacking the opportunity gap by leading Boston youth of all backgrounds down the pretty path of code. Here’s how they do it: mentorship, rigorous bootcamps, and a program called ‘the Lab’ where they pair bootcamp grads with experts to work on…
