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Kat Gordon and the 3% Conference: Gender Misrepresentation in Creative Agencies
I learned about Kat Gordon and her leadership initiative, the 3% Conference, when I stumbled across a document with a hot pink title. Confidently, it stated: “100 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Drive the 3% Number Upward.” But 3% of what? After reading a couple items on the document including “Banish the…
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Crack + Cider: Swapping Extra Change for Socks
At first, “Crack + Cider” might seem a crass name for an e-commerce site intended to help the homeless. But that’s just the point. Before the company’s launch, a British panhandler told its founding duo, “People don’t give me money because they just think I’ll spend it on crack and cider.” That’s exactly the impression…
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“There Are No Atheists in Foxholes”
BY CHARLOTTE JONES We’ve all heard the popularized WWII aphorism; “There are no atheists in foxholes.” But has that changed in the past sixty years? Is it possible that there are indeed atheists in the military and that they are beginning to be accepted and acknowledged as a demographic unto themselves? As of October 25th…