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 protections.
‘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 of social change, while not easy, is worth traveling.
‘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 built on her mom’s recipes.
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 recalibrating in the new world of work.
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 out in their homes and careers.
‘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 bravery inspired Francesca to make a drastic change, too.
Ambition Diaries: Still Not Equal
Co-published with Fast Company. On the second episode of Ambition Diaries, we hear stories of workplace discrimination.