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When You Can't Afford the City You Grew Up In
How older generations can take a more active role in supporting Gen Z
My experience spending time with Gen Z students defies the generational platitudes about them being entitled and naive. They see through hypocrisy, they see the vast pro...
Kissing Up Kicking Down, Revisiting Purpose, Flip-Flopping is the Worst, Surveillance Chic, Trauma, Gorgeous Neighbors
Flip-flopping is the worst
Higher Ground Substack features in Bloomberg today!!! My students now consider corporate hypocrisy considerably worse than having the “wrong” opinion in the first place.
I spoke to Beth Kowitt about this, b...
The Activist's Dilemma: Forced Labor Under Trump
We all know that DEI and climate action have been trashed. The picture on forced labor is more complicated, and no one wants to talk about it, for all sorts of interesting reasons.
A deep dive into the current state of forced labor politic...
Toxic Palantir, Fixing Fairness, Corruption in Football, Corporate Giving, AI Resistance, Governance isn't Working
Fairness and the diversity backlash
Hi from beautiful Woodstock, where I am entrenched for most of the rest of the summer!
I got to speak this week with the inimitable Lily Zheng, Fairness, Access, Inclusion and Representation Strat...
A Field Guide to Corruption in Football
To celebrate the World Cup, I made you this handy primer
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Professor at NYU Stern, author of Higher Ground. Lots of other hats, even more opinions. Join me to talk about corporate power, ethics, accountability. And human idiosyncrasies.
Fairness, Access, Inclusion, and Representation Strategist. Bestselling Author of DEI Deconstructed, Reconstructing DEI, and Fixing Fairness (Forthcoming, 2026). They/Them.
An American abroad pulling together various threads from the three places I consider home, covering American politics, British arts & culture, Nordic sustainability – and wherever the three shall meet. (All views are my own, for better or worse.)
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