Diversity

We’ve all been there — waking up to the cold, soulless emails about these mysterious “other candidates” that the company has chosen to move forward with. Not going to lie, I’ve definitely stayed in bed for an extra 15–30 minutes every time I got one of those — or a…

Reducing bias during the recruiting process — Last post we talked about how the GSB Impact Fund ‘hires’ a team of 65+ members and thinks of DEI metrics. Now, we’ll talk about reducing bias. We all have unconscious biases. Think about how you might smile more when you hear someone is from the same hometown or region…

On International Women’s Day, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion to empower and celebrate women in tech. The event — an invite-only opportunity with the purpose of creating a safe space to share stories and challenges — brought together female founders and operators to build, collaborate, and…

Like pregnancy, being an immigrant elicits the same curiosity from strangers and the same combination of pity and respect. I’m often reminded of a line from Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. This short passage describes Ashima’s beliefs about the life of a first-generation immigrant in America. I am no Ashima, but…

Part 1 “You can tell I don’t like white men very much,” my grandma said to the DJ who was trying to interview her for a radio program. She’d just been honored by the Muscogee Creek Tribe in Oklahoma when she was 100 years old, as one of the last…

Unless it includes whimsical fairytale-themed obstacles, I don’t play golf. But I quickly became interested in golf through discovering a very interesting (and in my opinion absurd) accommodation story centered around the question: what exactly is golf? Because apparently it’s not just hitting a ball into a hole. The quick…