by Robby Vaflor Lately, I’m increasingly finding myself yearning for the old internet—think 2000s to early 2010s—when you actually surfed the web. It was a time when user activity felt more open-ended, and people weren’t just funneled into the same handful of platforms. While many of the websites then (even branded ones) lacked polish, they certainly weren’t lacking in character: fun little mini games, easter eggs, animations, and chunks of text you actually wanted to read. T

A Call for “Slow-Thinking” The Care and Feeding of the Human Brain in the Age of AI By Malaika Cheney-Coker A much-needed wake-up call or the provocations of an alarmist?  Experts and AI pundits have been choosing these and other lenses to interpret Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s r ecent statement  that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white collar jobs in one to five years. But within the swirl of opinions and the unknowns on how the technology will develop and be adopted

By Ena Taguiam and Darnesha Tabor What Happens When You Invite AI Into an Outcome Evaluation? Last month, we wrapped up WomenStrong International’s outcome evaluation , which explored two main questions: (1) how are organizations building strength and resilience given WomenStrong’s support, and, (2) in what ways have partners changed over the past few years. Given the subtleties of what we were classifying as outcomes – changes within organizations that may not yet have manif

In times of crisis, organizations must tap all their people assets  by Malaika Cheney-Coker Together She came to us with the confidence of the uninitiated, expecting that we, her higher ups would have a plan. It was 2020, the year pandemonium broke loose—the pandemic, then the racial reckoning in the U.S. after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Companies, already scrambling to adjust to work-from-home mandates and financial upheaval, now had to formulate long-overdue

By Malaika Cheney-Coker In times of great upheaval or uncertainty, say pandemics or life-altering presidential elections, an inevitable cliche rears its head. It goes something like this – that we can create something new and desirable out of the muck. We’ll put emphasis here on the word “create” and its implication that, rather than grit our teeth and endure till the good times eventually roll in, we can play a role in parting the gloom. We can craft, feather by feather, the

By Abbie Cohen You know the person I’m talking about–the one with the mental map of who’s connected to whom and who you should talk to for what. Chances are, someone like this exists in your area of interest, whether work or play–or maybe you are that person.  For me, that person was Hilary King, my former professor and Director of Special Projects at Community Farmers Markets and Associate Director of the Masters in Development Practice program at Emory University. Her exten