I hold a Masters in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. I have been published in major national media and worked with Fortune 500 brands.
In A Mid-Career Rut? Here Are 6 Practical Solutions To Help Snap You Out Of It
Almost everyone in the working world can relate to hitting a mid-career rut at one point or another. But before making any drastic decision...
How U.S. Military Veterans View the Travel Ban
President Donald Trump supports America's troops. The troops, however, are more on the fence about their president.
Effective Marketing Needs to Be Authentic and Story-Driven
Most small businesses rely heavily on marketing strategies to retain current customers and attract new ones. However, the digital realm, including social media, is changing rapidly, and marketers must adapt their strategies quickly if they want to continue to reach their customers.
Inside the Dark, Depraved Comedy Channel Targeted at Military Veterans
We asked actual veterans of America's wars about a controversial new network, VET TV, that's supposed to help them readjust to civilian life.
Meet the Man Racing Elon Musk to the Moon
“Making money is like having an orgasm, people who focus on it never get it,” Naveen Jain, billionaire founder of Moon Express, tells me while eating salty edamame peas in SoHo. “It’s like having sex, you have to enjoy the process and not focus on the end goal.” Naveen’s latest venture, Moon Express, founded in 2010, is the first private company to gain approval by the United States government to go to the moon. The approval came after U.S. officials consulted with federal agencies like NASA,...
Military Women, Too, Should Serve Unmolested
It was 2004 and I had been in the Army for only three months when I first began to suspect something was wrong. I was walking by our drill sergeant’s desk, where he sat, leaning back in his chair. On the floor in front of him was a newly arrived female soldier. She was on her back, dressed in T-shirt and shorts, doing scissor kicks. He sat perfectly poised to see her crotch and the insides of her thighs.
In one sense, this wasn’t unusual. In Advanced Individual Training, soldiers are drilled ...
The State of the Girl in 2017
The world has changed so much in the past twelve months. It feels as if we are moving at warp speed toward a very uncertain, probably not very bright, future. If we feel this way as adults, what must it feel like for someone still growing?
We wanted to take a kind of survey, an understanding of the state of the girl in America in 2017. What does it mean to be at the start of your life, your career, to be young and ambitious and female, right now? We live in a world where it seems anything is ...
I'm a US military vet, and I feel afraid in my own country
Two days after 9/11, I watched as the news continued to replay images of steel towers crumbling in flames. I looked at the screen from my perch at the hostess stand of a swanky Italian restaurant in downtown Chicago, wher...
Peaceful Warrior
A personal crisis following a deployment with the Army led Supriya Venkatesan to seek a more meaningful purpose. Her subsequent journey uncovered Transcendental Meditation.
When Water Makes You Wet: Inside the Ecosexual Revolution ...
Are our fetishes and sexualities based on nature or nurture? In the case of ecosexuality, an identity that celebrates an heightened connection between body and Mother Earth, it’s all about nature.
5 tips for making arguments less scary
According to neuroscience research, 98 percent of people are wired with the ability to empathize. (The remaining two percent include those with psychopathic personalities.) But when conflict occurs, it’s easy to forego this inherent human skill.
Creative Juice: How LSD Became the Go-to Drug of the Smartest Guy in the Room
Today, a renaissance of hallucinogen drug use is fueling creatives from Silicon Valley to New York City as part of a bigger movement called biohacking.
HOW U.S. MILITARY VETERANS VIEW THE TRAVEL BAN
As President Trump continues to push his Muslim ban, members of our armed forces find themselves in precarious positions.
I'm 16 Years Old and I'm a Syrian Refugee | Teen Vogue
I'm 16 Years Old and I'm a Syrian Refugee | Teen Vo...
Moon Salutations: Cultivating Lunar Nectar (and Tapping into Your Softer Side)
A Dose of Moon-Shine.