Raksha Vasudevan‘I Spent Much of my Career Listening to White Folks Complain About Africa and Africans’Working in international aid, Stephanie Kimou was often the only African on staff at white-led institutionsSep 1, 20205Sep 1, 20205
Melinda Fakuade‘We All Deserve Equal Access to Healthcare’This rheumatologist is working against a healthcare system plagued by implicit bias and inherent discriminationAug 21, 2020Aug 21, 2020
Melinda Fakuade‘We Need People Within Our Publishing Houses Who Reflect What Our Country Looks Like’Book publisher Lisa Lucas reflects on her career and how the literary world still isn’t diverse enoughAug 20, 20201Aug 20, 20201
Justine van der Leun‘I Want to Burn the System to the Ground. But I Also Work Inside It.’This hedge fund analyst feels disillusioned with capitalism, but leaving her job isn’t an optionAug 18, 20209Aug 18, 20209
Haley Cohen Gilliland‘I Was Told: Just Keep Your Mouth Shut’This detective was pushed out of his department in a large metropolitan city for reporting police brutalityAug 17, 20205Aug 17, 20205
Justine van der Leun‘Families Like Mine Rarely Realize Their Privilege’A woman who comes from a family with dynastic wealth explains what it really feels like to profit from a profoundly unfair systemAug 12, 202025Aug 12, 202025
Justine van der Leun‘My Goal Is to Dismantle the System I Once Defended’Lola Rainey is a former Arizona county prosecutor who left her work to become an abolitionistAug 11, 20203Aug 11, 20203
Haley Cohen Gilliland‘The Real Problem Lies With Bail Being Used as a Form of Punishment’Bail bondsman Topo Padilla works in a $3 billion industry where Black and Hispanic detainees make up nearly half of the jail populationAug 10, 20204Aug 10, 20204
Haley Cohen Gilliland‘I Don’t Think Anyone Grows Up Wanting to Be a Prison Guard’A corrections officer reflects on 15 years of working among incarcerated peopleAug 7, 20204Aug 7, 20204
Haley Cohen Gilliland‘I’ve Been Telling Hollywood to Hire Black Talent for Years’Tiauna Jackson became an agent after her friends couldn’t find representation they liked. Now she’s taking on a system that prefers lip…Aug 6, 20202Aug 6, 20202
