All Essays & Articles

TSA's facial recognition program is technically voluntary. Almost nobody knows they can refuse. This pattern is not unique to airports.

Angela Lipps spent 108 days in jail for a crime committed 1,200 miles away. She lost her home, her car, and her dog. The facial recognition software was wrong. Nobody checked.

For years we rewarded people for how fast they could produce. Now the skills we dismissed as soft are exactly the ones rising in value. What AI is teaching us about what actually makes work move.

I joined a Facebook group for parents of college-bound kids. I was not prepared for what I found there. A reflection on what the admissions process has become and what it is doing to our kids.

Students are using AI to write their essays. Admissions offices are using AI to read them. The authentic voice may be the one that gets screened out.

The mistake most people make in disagreement isn't saying the wrong thing. It's misreading what the other person actually needs.

AI companies are optimizing for output. Nobody is accountable for footprint. That's the problem twenty years of diversity leadership was built to solve.

Organizations don't have a crisis communications problem. They have a consistency problem. And AI just made it catastrophically worse. Here's what the CCO role actually needs right now.

Anthropic's own researchers say Claude is something genuinely new. Which means every assumption your organization has about AI at work is probably wrong.

Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs and was rejected every time. Every employer used the same AI platform. The opt-in deadline for Mobley v. Workday is March 7th.

A federal court just ruled that AI conversations aren't private. Legal scholars are debating what it means for lawyers. I want to talk about everyone else.

AI systems are already shaping whose résumé gets seen, whose writing gets flagged, whose ideas get surfaced. Most people never know it happened. That's a free speech problem.

I was never the math kid. I was the storyteller. But maybe storytellers are builders too — we just build differently.

My kids figured out intergenerational connection with a Skype project. Most institutions still haven't.

The most elite military unit in the world solved it without workshops, quotas, or diversity scorecards.

Why the oppressor/oppressed model is failing the very people it was meant to help.

Silence feels safe. But silence doesn't grow truth. Why I started the Disagree Better series.

It fell apart because it was never real to begin with.

What began as a noble effort has become performative, divisive, and detached from its purpose.

Stop blaming DEI. The real problem is our fear of each other.

Anyone can tear it down. The hard part is figuring out what to build in its place.

We're doing DEI all wrong. A military spouse story and what it taught me about real inclusion.

True diversity embraces the multiplicity of human experience.

Half the country disagrees. What it means, and how we move forward without tearing each other apart.

Maybe inclusion is about growth, not constant comfort.

The problem isn't the principles. It's the double standard in how they're applied.

What DEI needs to do to survive. Reform isn't easy — but it starts with honesty.

How can we work towards something if we can't define it?

Cancel culture is one of the biggest threats to true DEI.

Free speech is not a partisan issue. Why viewpoint diversity matters.

Use DEI to let ideas thrive, not die.

Shielding students from every difficulty doesn't help them — it holds them back.

Universities should be custodians of debate, not participants in it.

We need to do this together. DEI needs a rebirth, not a death sentence.