Let’s get a little personal Below is an email I sent to the women in my life. After having numerous conversations with friends, coworkers, former coworkers, yoga buddies, you...
Community Spotlight: Grace Institute
Introduction Grace Institute is a non-profit organization that has provide job readiness training to women for more than one hundred years. Originally a school run by nuns, the agency...
Exploring Diversity to Engage in Meaningful Conversation
Diversity is more than a word; it’s a conversation. It requires definition, context, perspective. It has been applied to groups, to initiatives, to companies, to food, to ecosystems. Diversity can and does...
Community Spotlight: Brooklyn Workforce Innovations
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations isn’t a well-known name here in New York City. There aren’t advertisements on the subway, or anywhere on the streets of Brooklyn. A Google search doesn’t...
Women, Leadership and Workforce Education
Understanding the Origins of Gender Inequality to Drive Progress Most societies evolved with a built-in inequality between men and women. Many religious texts require women to defer to their...
Legislation, Workforce Education and Transitioning Veterans
Introduction Workforce Education legislation, including the recent passing of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) has had a focus on creating educational opportunities for underserved and marginalized populations....
Social Equality and Education
Born in 1921, Paulo Friere was a Brazilian educator and philosopher. His book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, took a critical look at pedagogy and the avenues by which the...