From Tech to Art For 25-year-old Deborah Lee, illustration has always been in their blood. “Drawing felt natural to me growing up,” Lee says. Yet they never imagined it would one day become a career. Happily, they were wrong. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design,...
Honoring a Vow to Invoke Change When Dalana Brand, vice president of people experience and head of inclusion and diversity at Twitter, started her career as a corporate finance professional, a job interview changed her profoundly. The interviewer asked, “Why would a woman be interested in the...
More companies are taking a hard look at their own practices—and some are leading the charge for change. Traditionally, companies have generally avoided speaking out on thorny issues like racial justice, gender discrimination, or the environment. That is, until the recent political, racial, and social reckoning in...
Men at Work: Damien Hooper-Campbell As Zoom’s first CDO, Damien Hooper-Campbell taps into his humanity. Damien Hooper-Campbell doesn’t shy away from an opportunity to be the first. He recently marked his one-year anniversary as Zoom’s first-ever chief diversity officer. He also was the first CDO at eBay and at Uber. Before...
Sheila Ellian Lewis of Pivotal Ventures is turning her marketing and business prowess toward social justice issues By Tanisha A. Sykes Sheila Ellian Lewis is a strategist and problem-solver. That’s exactly what Pivotal Ventures was looking for when it brought Lewis on board in June of this year. Founded...
Seeking a healthier beverage for herself, Kara Goldin founded Hint Water, today a market leader and multimillion-dollar business In the early 2000s, Kara Goldin, at the time the vice president for Electronic Commerce and Shipping at AOL, was trying to kick her diet soda habit, as...