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Aug 8, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Jessica Helfand |Ellen McGirt |CMM Support
Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer prize winning poet, professor and librettist who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017-2019. She’s published five poetry collections, two librettos and one memoir-manifesto. She is also a Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard. Her most recent Libretto for the opera The Righteous is currently running at the Santa Fe Opera house through August 13th.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Jessica Helfand |Ellen McGirt |CMM Support |Aimee Allison
This episode of DB|BD features two extraordinary women from two seemingly different corners of the design world, Dionna Dorsey and Olivia Peebles. We say “seemingly” because, while they occupy different design disciplines, they approach their work in similar ways. They are both multidisciplinary designers with the hearts and souls of artists whose visuals bring to life what they and their collaborators know to be true about the world.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Jessica Helfand |Ellen McGirt |Cathy Engelbert |CMM Support
The WNBA is both the moment and a movement. Approximately 400,000 fans attended WNBA games during the first month of the 2024 season, the highest first-month attendance in 26 years. An average of 1.32 million viewers are tuning into each game. Building on years of steady growth, a historic rookie class — including Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark — has brought a flood of new eyeballs to a game with some of the most dedicated fans in professional sports.
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May 10, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Ellen McGirt |CMM Support |Jessica Helfand |Kevin Bethune
I caught up recently with Reverend Mark E. Fowler, the CEO of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, who shared how the organization was helping member companies navigate the needs of their employees after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. “[M]embers of their workforce are grief-stricken, walking around in constant fear,” he said.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Ellen McGirt |CMM Support |Jessica Helfand |Kevin Bethune
Act II: Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s much-anticipated eighth album, is here. It is a joyful, focused, and purposeful follow-up to Renaissance, her trilogy project conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s also a shot across the bow for inclusion. Based on fan reaction, it’s already a hit. The genius rollout of this album began at the Super Bowl, with a tantalizing promise of songs to come announced inside a splashy Verizon ad.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Ellen McGirt |CMM Support |Jessica Helfand |Kevin Bethune
Sir Angus Deaton has changed his mind. In a new piece published by the International Monetary Fund, “Rethinking My Economics,” the Princeton professor examines what he believes to be dangerous shortcomings of his chosen field and his own thinking. It’s a fairly long list.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Ellen McGirt |Jessica Helfand |Kevin Bethune |CMM Support
Is this you? Or is this your direct report? “I expressed myself multiple times to my team how I was failing under pressure, between the bullying and burnout. After my exit …, they split my position into two different people. Both being white individuals.”Who gets the good projects where you work?
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Ellen McGirt |CMM Support |Aimee Allison |Kevin Bethune
In “Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI,” researchers from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and the psychology department at Cornell found that when instructed to “deliver well-argued, person-specific debunks,” an AI chatbot (ChatGPT-4 Turbo, specifically) had a 20% success rate in reducing someone’s belief in a conspiracy theory. “This effect did not decay over two months,” write Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Ellen McGirt |CMM Support |Jessica Helfand |Kevin Bethune
Some 92,000 people have completed the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey, the largest and most thorough survey of trans and non-binary people ever fielded. The record turnout is the result of serious grassroots activism within trans circles. The survey, an initiative of the National Center for Transgender Equality, asked over 600 possible questions ranging from health care, employment, and education to housing and public accommodations. You can explore their early findings here.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
designobserver.com | Ellen McGirt |CMM Support |Jessica Helfand |Kevin Bethune
Now, more than ever, we need to find our people. I was reminded of how important that is when I joined an all-star panel to discuss the future of corporate DEI efforts in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in education in an online session co-hosted by PolicyLink and the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. (More on the latter, here.) We started by discussing how little has actually changed.
