Rewriting Paradigms

Although first published in 2015, this blog introduces three great social impact organizations that are rewriting paradigms in areas as diverse as travel, hunger, and sustainability. All three have made great strides since I first met them. Check them out! Social entrepreneurism is a goal to which many of us aspire, but how do you even start? The team at Goodnik has made it their business to help promote social entrepreneurism, as their mission statement says “by bringing no

and We Believe Him Well, not quite. But we wanted to, and we did enjoy being made fun of. Even more so, we enjoyed the now-classic Borowitz quips, the ones that he says people believed are real, such as this one from June 18, 2015, when he told us: TRUMP SAYS HE HEROICALLY AVOIDED CAPTURE IN VIETNAM BY STAYING IN U.S. Most of us can’t help but laugh at a Borowitz line, even if it makes us somewhat uncomfortable. There was that diversity thing last night. Borowitz asked by a s

Giving Tuesday came early for some of us wrapped up in a partial evening of Q & A with Katie Hunt-Morr, Director of Community for Virgin Unite, the entrepreneurial foundation for the Virgin Group. The introduction came in the form of Nate Hensley's inaugural All Good Work (AGW) speaker series, held in a cozy corner of one of the cavernous work spaces that make up the growing AGW flexible workspace network. Hunt-Morr is this week’s paradigm buster for her part in modeling ways

Thursday evening brought a panel of EdTech heavyweights into the already heavily paneled halls of Teachers College, Columbia University: Azi Jamalian Co-Founder of Tiggly; Kara Carpenter, Co-Founder of Teachley; and Luyen Chou, Chief Product Officer of Pearson. The evening was moderated by Detra Price-Dennis of Teachers College and co-hosted by Teachers College and New York EdTech MeetUp. The theme of the evening was “The Role of Educational Research in EdTech,” and the key t

This is a message from the Berklee College of Music. There has been a shooting in the vicinity of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street. We urge you to stay inside while police investigate. If you must go outside, travel in pairs and stay in well-lit areas . . . Quite honestly, when I answered the phone, I sheepishly worried that I was late with a tuition payment. Perhaps I had hoped for something as mundane as that. Within seconds, by text, I learned that my daughter and

Today’s paradigm shift focuses on the concept of agency. I’ve been reading Leila Janah’s new book “Give Work,” a beautifully written and brilliant treatise on reversing poverty through job creation rather than charity. The way that Janah articulates the concept of agency and the value of work over charity motivates me to re-visit some issues I’ve previously explored in the light of agency. Let’s see how re-tuning the language around some of these ideas can shift the perspecti