One-size-fits-all approach rarely fits any.

      According to Oakland based, Kapor Center Research, a unidimensional gender lens used to inform solutions or initiatives, adopts a “one-size-fits-all” approach more often leaves women of color behind when  increasing gender diversity in tech, entrepreneurship, and venture capital .   Does one-size-fit all? Continue reading

Classical Music — a bastion of batons, board rooms and behaviors — blocks women from the podium

 Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images Lidiya Yankovskaya conducting the Refugee Orchestra Project at the First Unitarian Congregational Society, Brooklyn, June 20, 2016                        Borrowing from the works of choreographer, Mark Morris, classical music is a 'hard nut to crack' -- the world of conductors seemingly the toughest. Some … Continue reading Classical Music — a bastion of batons, board rooms and behaviors — blocks women from the podium