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One year ago, I wrote about white women's tears after Amy Cooper called the cops on Christian Cooper the same day George Floyd was murdered.

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

Ozzie Gonzalez with P3 Consulting speaks on the Companies That Care Podcast. An urban ecologist, he ran for mayor of Portland in 2020.

Stefanie Michele suffered from eating disorders for 20 years. After decades of extensive therapy, she created her own formula for healing.

Marie Gettel-Gilmartin interviews Christine Carino, a queer nonbinary immigrant from the Philippines.

Danielle Meadows-Stinnett owns Octane Design Studios and is a grassroots developer, creator, branding expert, and graphic designer.

Basecamp's new policies clearly define it as a company that doesn't care. I outline what's wrong with their new policies.

Nono Osuji is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated from Nigeria. Nono suffers from lupus and being "broke, gifted, and Black

Interview with two of my CSR mentors: Elisa Speranza chaired the CH2M Foundation board, and Ellen Sandberg was the executive director.

Companies That Care podcast with Aroa Fernandez Alvarez, cofounder of Trace Collective in London, on a mission to make fashion regenerative

Companies That Care podcast interview with Narendra Varma, cofounder of Our Table Cooperative in Sherwood, OR

“I have very, very adventurous kids who love to explore, go to parties, and try stuff, the kind of acting out that some teenagers do."

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

“The message sent to me was that this was not to be talked about…it didn't feel like a safe place to share…I wasn't going to be believed, be

Brigitte’s parents fled for safety. Her father carried his little brother on his back while they were fleeing Palestine.

“Was I so desirable that you have to lock me away, or am I completely fat and ugly and undesirable?"

“For years I lived with the guilt that I had done something wrong, that I had invited it in, that it was something to do with my behavior."

“Anyone who's Mormon will tell you there is Mormon. And then there's Utah Mormon. And then there is BYU, Utah Mormon.

“You name the bad decision, I made it…abusive relationships, drug addiction, alcoholism. I was just a wreck.”

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

But this is the time when companies have no right to celebrate Black history and culture unless they are walking their talk every day.

“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."