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Microaggressions: Death By a Thousand and One Paper Cuts
08.25.2020 8 minute read

Microaggressions: Death By a Thousand and One Paper Cuts

Usually committed by a well-meaning person — unaware that what they’re saying is inappropriate, gauche, or hurtful — the term…

Words Matter: Navigating Language and Social Change
08.24.2020 5 minute read

Words Matter: Navigating Language and Social Change

As copywriters, editors, and creatives, we use language and ideas to persuade, inform, promote. We may communicate across vastly different…

What Investing in Diversity Really Looks Like
08.20.2020 7 minute read

What Investing in Diversity Really Looks Like

As a twenty-don't worry about it-year old, I was not above grumbling about Generation Z, with their TikTok videos, seemingly missing awkward…

womens-suffrage-stamp
08.17.2020 8 minute read

PR Lessons from the Women’s Suffrage Movement

In 1920, after over a century of proposals, petitions, and protests, the 19th Amendment was finally ratified, granting women the…

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08.13.2020 6 minute read

Georgia O’Keeffe: A Dedicated Visionary

As many of us spend more of our days alone, apart, and isolated, we perhaps have found space to step…

Making Your Digital Communications Accessible for People with Disabilities
07.15.2020 5 minute read

Making Your Digital Communications Accessible for People with Disabilities

With the rush to rapidly push communications out during the COVID-19 pandemic, accessibility considerations can fall by the wayside. There are a…

Bessie Coleman: Daredevil Black Aviatrix
07.14.2020 7 minute read

Bessie Coleman: Daredevil Black Aviatrix

After 110 years, the U.S. Navy finally has its first Black female tactical jet pilot! Her path was paved by the iconic Bessie Coleman: the first…