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Challenging Silicon Valley and our favorite troll — The Weekly reFRESH

Photo via Gap This week, we’re sharing tips on how to get your startup funded if you’re a female entrepreneur, The Gap’s blatant (and disgusting) use of tokenization in its most recent ad, and that moment when your mom becomes your online troll. What we’ve been checking out… Not all stories are promoted equally, but […]

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White identity politics and the progressive prosecutor — The Weekly reFRESH

Photo via Getty Images/ Cosmopolitan Edited by Mara Meyers This week we’re sharing a design strategy that prioritizes human equity over market value, a groundbreaking caucus, and how conservatives are struggling with “white identity politics” (yep, you read that right). What we’ve been checking out… For the first time ever, congress will form a caucus […]

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How does one design equity? — The Weekly reFRESH

Edited by Mara Meyers This week we’re sharing the way Chicago got under Trump’s skin, what happens when you remove all men from political images, and a young college student who made the institution of debate debatable. What we’ve been checking out… Misty Copeland and Barack Obama talk candidly about role models, activism, and systemic […]

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Urban acupuncture and engineers’ isolation — The Weekly reFRESH

Edited by Mara Meyers This week we’re sharing a TED talk on girlhood and bravery by one of our own speakers, how a building is re-envisioning architecture for the blind, and a new political player to look out for in the election. What we’ve been checking out… A roundtable with black women engineers in the […]

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The Weekly reFRESH: Radical MLK and $1M for girl coders

Edited by Mara Meyers This week’s reFRESH includes reflections on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a new name for your savings account, and a practical end to Silicon Valley’s well-documented diversity problems. What we’ve been checking out… Citing the “white privileged racism” of this all-white Oscars, Mark Ruffalo considered not attending. We think […]

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