This year for Mother’s Day I want to highlight the woman most directly responsible for helping to guide my life both personally and professionally, my mother. In the year 2001, she graduated with her degree in multimedia design. By that time, she was already a wife and mother of two. I sat down with her recently to discuss how she entered the tech field and what her experience has been like over the last 20 years of her career.
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Why has Encanto taken the world by storm? The simple answer is representation. Encanto incorporated timeless lessons about family, love, duty, and forgiveness through beautiful animation celebrating Colombian culture. Encanto delivers on a change to the status quo of Disney movies in a multitude of ways. The main cast includes characters with indigenous, Afro-Latina, and European features, all of whom are given the care and development that you would expect from a Disney protagonist.
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With just a little over a week until Halloween, I find myself once again searching the internet for the perfect fun and appropriate costume to don for the night. Now that the pandemic is on the downturn in some areas, more people are planning to celebrate this year and the holiday falling on the weekend means even more participation from excited children trick-or-treating in the neighborhood to adults gathering for intimate parties and bar crawls alike. As a Black woman, Halloween has always been a strange day for me.
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As we enter the last leg of the summer, many Americans are faced with the possibility of a lot more social interaction in the next few months. But make no mistake: the society that emerges from the pandemic will be vastly different than the one that went in. Thanks to social media, it has been easier than ever for people to be kept abreast of the barriers and plights experienced by marginalized communities. Here are a few tips for how to navigate conversations while minimizing harm…
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In honor of April being National Community College Month, I wanted to reflect on my experience in what I find to be the backbone of the American higher educational system. Community colleges are often the most diverse education centers in a city or town, as their very nature is to serve the entire community. They are not only less expensive than a four-year institution and therefore more attainable, but they also understand their student’s needs and are better able to support them outside of the classroom.
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