On November 8, 2016, I celebrated my first voting-age birthday. I basically bounced over to my polling place in Davis, feeling the sun and excitement of exercising democracy in America. I voted for Hillary Clinton. She wasn’t my perfect candidate. In fact, I agreed far more with Bernie Sanders’ plans…

I heard about it when I was meeting my VC friend for lunch (classic San Francisco). At first, I thought he said Lotion — after all, it’s an “app that combines all your other apps,” he told me. Okay, so like…lotions them all together, I thought. I signed up for…

Fast fashion (the opposite of sustainable fashion) is cheap, low-quality clothes produced at breakneck speeds, prioritizing instant gratification of trends over sustainability. It’s our approach to the creation of fast fashion that makes it so damaging. Here are three main problems: We make WAY more than we need — and…

There’s a few feelings we can all relate to: the horror that ensues after a newly-purchased ice cream slides off its cone onto the ground, the disorientation of taking a daytime nap and waking up in pitch darkness, and the constipating anxiety of preparing for a confrontation. But, friends, here…

Something had been shifting for a while, but it wasn’t until Anna gave her dress rehearsal performance that I realized what it was. It was truly a performance — she had a picture of a windy road on her PowerPoint slide and recapped her absurd founder journey. We celebrated her…

November 26, 2018 — Volunteer Day Everything smells like bleach. It’s always given me a bit of a headache, but here, it’s a good thing. Bleach means excellent sanitation. It means patient safety, disease containment, and another uneventful daily inspection by the California Department of Public Health. We’re beginning Day…