Los Angeles’s Garment District Is Still Home to Severe Exploitation
Co-published with Jacobin. Long faced with paltry wages and inhumane working conditions, Los Angeles’s garment workers are taking significant risks to organize for better pay and workplace …
‘I Would Be The First To Say I Had No Work-Life Balance.’
Co-published with Fast Company. It has never been easy to be a woman in politics. Ruth Messinger set an example for her daughter, Miriam, that the road …
‘I Was Burned Out From My High-Profile Job, So I Started A Family Business With My Mom’
Co-published with Fast Company. Cassandra Lam had what seemed like a dream job, but when she reached a breaking point she decided to start a Malaysian curry brand …
Ambition Diaries: Does Ambition Even Matter Anymore?
Co-published with Fast Company. On this fourth and final episode of Ambition Diaries, Kate examines is ambition really matters anymore after the pandemic and how we are …
Ambition Diaries: The Most Important Decision
Co-published with Fast Company. In this episode we’ll hear from several of the mothers and daughters in the series about how decisions around marriage and children played …
‘They wanted me to make myself smaller, so they could be comfortable’
Co-published with Fast Company. Francesca followed in her mother Damita’s footsteps, climbing the ladder in corporate roles, but when Damita got a new lease on life, her …
Ambition Diaries: Still Not Equal
Co-published with Fast Company. On the second episode of Ambition Diaries, we hear stories of workplace discrimination.