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Come Fall, she is likely to be the first Somali-American to take public office, serving in the House of Representatives for the State of Minnesota. When she was little, her family fled Somalia spent the next four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. When she came to the US she didn’t know any English, but she learned quickly. Once she…
Jacob Riis was a Danish immigrant who was horrified to discover that opportunity in the USA was pretty much a myth. Everything he’d heard about America back in Europe seemed to be false. Coming to New York in 1870 with $40 and the clothes on his back, Jacob lived with thousands of Polish, Italian, Irish and other immigrants living in…
Meet physicist Whitney Ingram, breaking down barriers in nanomaterials and gender roles. Today she’s sharing her research on invisibility cloaks with New Sincerity. – – – As a child, I was always curious about the natural world: Why does this glow? How does electricity work? How do generators work? Those questions never died as I got older. I felt physics was…
Jennifer Pierre is the co-founder of Melanites, the first ever line of boy dolls of color. She started the line after working at a community center and noticing something wasn’t quite right about the toys the boys had. The toys weren’t accurately representing the kids who were playing with them, so that’s what prompted her to set about finding a…
Mindy Abovitz is a drummer and media executive smashing stereotypes in the music world. She’s the founder of all-girl Tom Tom Magazine and she was sweet enough to share her passion and story with New Sincerity. Cheers, and happy reading! – – – I gravitated toward the drum set most likely because it was a rebellious thing for a girl…
Dr. Adrienne Keene is part Cherokee, part ivy-league scholar, and part superwoman. She’s starting as a professor in American Studies at Brown University and runs a blog that we’re all looking at called Native Appropriations. The blog has been around for a hot minute and it’s full of Native positive representations, contemporary designers and art. Adrienne also talks pop culture––like when…
Chris and Courtney Rhodes have one goal with their clothing line FLAVNT (pronounced ‘flaunt’): to promote confidence in the LGBTQ community. They are doing this one styling piece of clothing at a time. The Bareskin Binder is the newest brainchild for these Austin-based identical twins. It’s a swimwear line dedicated to making female-to-male trans folks feel confident when catching some…
Donovan Livingston delivered a speech at his Harvard graduation and it went viral. It wasn’t a normal speech – it was a poem. The audience hushed as they listened intently. He spoke of racism in the education system, and how vital it is to offer each person an equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of their skin color. What…
Good things are brewing in Colorado. Lots of beer of course, but also sustainable business models where employees are rewarded for their commitment. Kim Jordan, the founder of New Belgium Brewing, shifted the company over to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), where the workers start accruing stock after a year of employment. Essentially, the $225 million business is mostly…
‘State Prison Inmate’ doesn’t really jump off a resume and yell, ‘Hire Me!’. But we all gotta start somewhere and Jordan Wood started here. When he got out he was 24 and trying to figure out how to turn his life around. With a little help and a lot of hustle, he ended up at one of the biggest tech…
