Cross domain growth possibilities — Define purpose: Engage and build interest-based communities on your platform to leverage possibilities for growth. Your social media’s growth cycles are incremental to exponential, it embodies ripple effects to create organic growth cycles. These cycles form from your campaigns, publications, and projects. What are these cycles? Empower voices — Amplify voices — Engage voices.

I was interviewed by Ellen McGirt for Fortune magazine about the impact Trump’s America has on Muslim women entrepreneurs. “I’m so sorry, I don’t want to say those words out loud.” Rusul Alrubail is the executive director of The Writing Project, a small but growing publishing platform that helps all…

Be kind. Be empathetic. Don’t be a racist.

Every day, students at University Laboratory School, a public charter in Honolulu, Hawaii, have the opportunity to spend a quiet 10–15 minutes with their teachers for a Writer’s Workshop. One on one, they talk through the student’s progress on writing assignments they were assigned to complete during class. But these…

When teaching a diverse group of students, whether they are English language learners or English speakers but have a different cultural background, it’s important to be mindful of the cultural differences in students’ behaviour. Recognizing and being able to distinguish these cultural differences allows the teacher to form a safe…

So now we’ve got 10x posts telling life hack writers/startupy fail/success stories to stop writing about that life. But now I’m like, You all need to stop and quit riffing off of each other’s beat, cuz the drum will stop playin. Ie: hopefully people will catch on to your clickbait tiles and won’t click anymore.

This is a follow up to my post on solution-based thinking. I’ve been in the education field for almost 10 years now. I became an entrepreneur when I joined Design Cofounders, a design and entrepreneurship studio to work on a project I’ve been working on part-time for a while, called…

When I went into the education industry more than 10 years ago, I went into it wholeheartedly with enthusiasm, passion and excitement. The first time I stepped foot in my college as a professor I was so excited and happy to start my new teaching journey. …

If at first you don’t succeed … Try — — — — and try again — — — — — — — then try some more. But then, move on. — — SERIOUSLY. Because sometimes it just might not be the thing for you. You will find something else though. And work damn hard to make it your own.