Blog - Nextech - Computer Science Ed • 30th March 2021 Catapult brings girl’s simmering interest in tech to full boil Girls and students of color need encouragement to enroll in computer science and to see people who look like them in tech roles.
Ghostwriting - NTEN - Social issues research • 14th January 2021 Research: How young Americans responded to 2020’s major moments Ghostwritten - 2020 will go into the history books as one of the most significant for social causes, including the ways Young Americans responded. Cause and Social Influence studied the actions by and influences on this cohort, ages 18-30, throughout the year in which three major movements occurred and published six reports sharing those findings.
Blog - Legal aid • 13th October 2020 Blog - Domestic abuse and legal aid When Charlotte* agreed to marry a man who had already hurt her, she didn’t think of him as an abuser.
Fundraising - Blog post • 4th October 2020 5 things not to do after a fundraising campaign The good news: You can take steps right now to ensure the next campaign is less stressful and even more successful. Just make sure you don’t fall into the “We’ll tackle that in a month or two” trap.
Ghostwriting • 4th October 2020 Waiting for Your Call: Asian American Millennials For Asian Americans, not voting is a strong predictor of remaining uninvolved in all social issues, including causes intended to improve people’s lives.
Neighborhood Legal Services • 3rd January 2020 Blogging - Legal aid services Imagine moving in with your aging mother to care for her in the family home. After five, 10, 15 years, she passes away, and you stay in the home because … well, it’s where you live. You’ve been keeping up with the utility bills and mortgage payments, cutting the grass, fixing the leaks in the ceiling. It’s your home, too.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation • 25th September 2018 Collaboration on Social Issues Helps Earn Young Americans’ Trust Ghostwriting - US Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Blog - Health and hospital • 17th July 2019 Myths and Truths About Wine and Chocolate Every day, patients see articles about a new study proclaiming the health benefits of wine and chocolate. Can wine and chocolate actually be good for you?
Web Content • 22nd October 2018 Collaboration on Social Issues Helps Earn Young Americans’ Trust Focusing on one aspect of national influence study.
Web Content • 16th May 2018 How Play Therapy Helps Heal Childhood Trauma At his first appointment at the Center for Child Counseling for childhood trauma, 8-year-old Thomas* asked his trauma therapist if she “liked to hurt kids, too.”
Blog - Health, hospital - heart • 17th July 2019 6 Easy Ways to Improve Your Heart’s Health It’s February, and if you already feel a little guilty about the New Year’s Resolutions you’ve let slip, you are not alone. Fortunately, a resolution to boost your heart’s health can be easier to keep than you think!
Achieve blog • 27th September 2017 5 Things Not to Do After a Fundraising Campaign You can take steps right now to ensure the next campaign is less stressful and even more successful. Just make sure you don’t fall into the “We’ll tackle that in a month or two” trap.
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library blog • 19th April 2016 The Joy of Censorship: A Fiery Defense of the First Amendment The good news and the bad news: Joe Raiola isn’t likely to run out of material for his one-man show, The Joy of Censorship, any time soon. With the release of the documentary Bully and its R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, Raiola has a new topic on which to unleash his ability to find humor in the absurd.
LinkedIn • 11th August 2017 Making Data Analytics Work for Freelancers Most freelancers don’t do an adequate job reporting back to their clients on how they did.
Huffington Post • 19th October 2017 Stereotypes Aside: Millennials Locally, Nationally Are Acting for Change Millennials (born 1980-2000) have been tarred by the same brush for quite a while now: Apathetic. Self-centered. Not politically active. And no matter what data someone presents to the contrary, stereotypes refuse to bend. But they need to.
Achieve blog • 15th August 2017 4 ways not to choose a hero your nonprofit story It all boils down to one thing: Don’t let too much of an internal focus derail your fundraising efforts.
Freelance Austin Blog • 26th April 2017 Video Brings the Freelancer to Life: Meeting Recap, Freelance Austin Should freelancers use video to market their businesses? The answer, says photographer and videographer Matthew Lemke, is an unequivocal yes.
Freelance Austin Blog • 13th March 2017 3 Cool Places to Work Remotely in Austin: Freelance Austin Some freelancers in the communications business can work just about anywhere. For others, like me, my location influences everything about my final product.
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library • 22nd January 2013 Jim Lehrer Strives to “Write like Vonnegut” Jim Lehrer (of PBS NewsHour fame) had his first novel published in 1966. It was satire, he said. But when the editor of The Texas Observer met with him after writing a so-so review and told Lehrer, “Have you read any Kurt Vonnegut? Go read Cat’s Cradle and call me back,” he did just that.
