Cindi Leive

Jan 24, 2025 | glamour.com | Cindi Leive

The first time I really sat down with Cecile Richards, it was early in her tenure at Planned Parenthood, at a big round breakfast table in a midtown Manhattan restaurant. I’d been told she was new to New York—though not, of course, new to the spotlight, as a longtime labor organizer and the daughter of iconic Texas governor Ann Richards—and didn’t know that many women in media. Would I arrange a few editors to come meet her? I did, and by the time our plates were cleared, had two thoughts: 1.

Jan 14, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Cindi Leive

Share In 2021, the Smithsonian acquired something called the Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination. It was a 10-by-6-inch cardboard container filled mostly with items you could buy at any pharmacy, but for millions of American women, the “rape kit,” as this 1970s invention is now known, was a revolution in a box.Oh, and one important detail: The Chicago police sergeant Louis Vitullo didn’t invent the kit that initially bore his name.

Jan 14, 2025 | nytimes.com | Cindi Leive

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT: A True Crime Story, by Pagan KennedyIn 2021, the Smithsonian acquired something called the Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination. It was a 10-by-6-inch cardboard container filled mostly with items you could buy at any pharmacy, but for millions of American women, the "rape kit," as this 1970s invention is now known, was a revolution in a box.

Sep 21, 2024 | wearethemeteor.com | Cindi Leive

BY CINDI LEIVESomeone recently described Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson to me as a “magical human being,” which makes sense: She’s a marine biologist who somehow makes very dense climate science accessible, and she’s also a lot of fun (last week, she and actor Jason Sudeikis hosted a climate variety show at the Brooklyn Museum). But her greatest magic trick is her optimism.

Jul 27, 2024 | wearethemeteor.com | Cindi Leive

|In NEWSLETTER, FEATURED STORYBY CINDI LEIVEIf, four weeks from now, Kamala Harris strides across a Chicago stage to become the Democratic nominee for president, it will be the first time a Black or South Asian woman has become a major party’s chosen candidate. But it will not be the first time a Black woman earned presidential delegates at the convention.