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We need to stop using most black/white and light/dark metaphors, which contribute to system racism.

Don’t waste people’s time and clog up their email boxes by replying all. Here are 5 ways to prevent this from occurring.

Writing a compelling proposal takes a lot of time and energy. Don’t waste your investment by making one of these mistakes.

I'm grateful for my resilience. But I also carry grief about not seeing other people with cleft lips and palates as a child. Representation!

Sometimes acronyms can be useful. Most of the time, they should be ditched. Learn why.

Each holiday season, I'm reminded of how far we have to go to root out sexism in our language. Here are 8 tips on how to do that.

Lesson 1 of writing winning proposals: it's not about you! Talk about your client instead of yourself.

The more words, the harder for readers to understand. Most people read 25% of your content. Get the information to them quickly!

The best way to catch your readers’ attention is to put your key point first. Learn why this is so important!

I passionately believe in inclusive language. So I was caught out when someone told me Asian American should not be hyphenated.

When Lily Shaw was starting out as actress, her first agent told her, “If you only had the right look, you could be Sandra Bullock.”

Communication and leadership tips for supervising people virtually, to boost employee engagement and bolster your leadership skills.

Fertile Ground Communications announces a new client partnership: the Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon

Ruth L. Schwartz runs the Conscious Girlfriend Academy, the leading program supporting lesbians and queer women to date wisely and love well

If you think about penguins, where they live, and what they go through to conduct their lives, it's pretty astonishing.

Frontier Grit contains stories of women of color and all sorts of walks of life.

“It's hard for any child to be the only one in a category, and the more visible your category is, the more alienating it can be."

“It took a long time for the publishing industry to wake up to other countries as places people would want to read about.”

“I put pen to paper for the first time when I was 35, and I had my first novel published when I was 45."

I’ve been advocating for nonsexist language in writing ever since I discovered feminism in college. And every Christmas, I’m reminded yet ag