Confessions of a Journalist Turned Weed Smuggler
Co-published with Rolling Stone. A veteran reporter looks back on when he was laid off from his newspaper gig and instead of taking a dead-end desk job turned to running van loads of marijuana across state lines.
Will Packer Explains How Handing a Copy of His Student Film to Warrington Hudlin Changed His Career
Co-published with Fast Company. Filmmaker Will Packer tells the story of how he made himself stand out at his first internship.
How I Became A Modern Bootlegger
Co-published with Literary Hub. âEven after 25 years in journalism, I never knew humanity the way I did working at a strip club and moving product.â
America Welcomed This Refugee Who Fled the Taliban; Now Heâs a Founding CEO Opening Doors for Job Seekers Facing Adversity
Co-published with Fast Company. Cyrus Jaffery faced a string of professional rejections until his future father in law Tom Rivera saw his potential.
Your Workplace Wants You to Swallow a Happy Pill. What if You Found Collective Joy Instead?
Co-published with The Guardian. For years the corporate diktat has been that happiness must be achieved alone, but many are turning to communities for joy.
How a Mom Who Had Been Out of the Workforce for a Decade Talked Her Way Into a Career Opportunity
Co-published with Fast Company. The second in our new series with Fast Company profiles Daisy Magnus-Aryitey and how Code the Dream founder Dan Rearick bent the rules and changed her economic future.
How I Went From Living in a Homeless Shelter in Queens to Being a Published Author
Co-published with Fast Company. In the first in our new series with Fast Company, author Alex Miller tells the story of how his New School professor helped him get published when he had lost all hope.
What Happens When Mom And Dad Go On Strike
Co-published with Fatherly. When the Wrights joined the picket line, it upended every aspect of their lives. Two years later, they look back at their family's role in one of the longest coal strikes in U.S. history.
How the Rail Industry Has Put Profits Over People for Decades
Co-published with Prism. Four months after the Norfolk Southern East Palestine train derailment, workers and citizens fight against the toxicity of an industry that has cut corners at every turn.
Workers Blame Low Pay and Understaffing for New Yorkâs Benefits Backlog
Co-published with New York Focus. Some counties pay social services workers so little, the people who administer benefits end up applying themselves.
Parajoâs Quest to Rebuild
Co-published with Mother Jones. After historic flooding, the California migrant farming community is trying to recoverâeven if help from FEMA is scarce.
Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin
Co-published with Dissent Magazine. The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?