Work and Career
Preview: See it, Hear it, Stop it: Fighting Sexism at Work
Preview: Building the Creative Career You’re Meant to Have
Audrey Boring is a marketing, social media, and advertising specialist with an Art History degree from The University of South Florida. As a child she always knew she wanted to be a writer. As she got older that dream became a little more difficult but in 2010, she was given the opportunity to write at […]
Preview: Black Women & The Invisible Billion Dollar Start-up
Regina Gwynn is the co-founder and CEO of TressNoire, an on-location hair styling booking service. TressNoire is the first beauty booking platform designed for busy multicultural professionals that sends traveling hair stylists to their client’s home, hotel or office to bring a luxury salon experience to their doorstep. However, Regina is not only a CEO […]
Top 5 Panels for Millennials
The term “millennial” has somehow become synonymous with negative words such as “entitled,” “narcissistic,” or even “lazy.” How did these labels get tied to an entire generation of people? What can we do to overcome these stereotypes? According to Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, Millennials now make up over a third of […]
Let’s talk about time
One of the most complicated relationships that anybody has in their life is their relationship to time. Time requires constant management and must be constantly negotiated to make room for an endless parade of pursuits and tasks. Despite its paramount importance, there are many cultural assumptions about time that go unrecognized. At this year’s SXSW […]
Designing diversity and bypassing unconscious bias
A lot of people can agree that the lack of diversity in the workplace is a major problem. It has become something of a truism to say that the workplace is disproportionately dominated by white men. If so many people agree that this problem exists, then why does it still loom? Why isn’t change happening […]