Diversifying the Pilot Pipeline
A 2022 analysis issued by consulting firm Oliver Wyman found a shortfall of 8,000 pilots in North America, or 11% of the total workforce. That gap is estimated to grow to nearly 30,000 by the end of t...
4 Aug 202326min
Who Gets to Make Video Games?
On this episode, we discuss the lack of representation in the video game industry, from the stories that get told in games to the people who get to make them. While gamers of color are more active tha...
31 Mai 202326min
Black Women Entrepreneurs: Creating an Ecosystem
American entrepreneurship had been on a 40-year decline. But 2020 is the year that turned around; entrepreneurship is on the rise once again. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, aspiring entrepreneur...
20 Apr 202323min
Black Women Entrepreneurs: Putting Community First
According to a 2021 report in the Harvard Business Review, 17% of Black women are in the process of starting or running new businesses, compared to 10% of white women and 15% of white men. For this sp...
20 Apr 202325min
Leading to Execute: Mielle Organics’ Monique Rodriguez
An extreme funding gap exists for Black female entrepreneurs who, in 2021, received merely 0.34% of the total venture capital spent in the U.S. in the first half of the year, according to Crunchbase. ...
8 Feb 202329min
Narrowing the Disability Employment Gap
The barriers to entering and staying in the workforce are complex for disabled people, and magnified for disabled people with additional marginalized identities. This results in long term impacts to t...
10 Jan 202328min
Building Credit for Immigrants
A recent survey commissioned by Nova Credit found that nearly half of immigrants said a U.S. credit card is hard to obtain. Without a credit card or any type of credit history to their name, immigrant...
8 Des 202218min
Displaced Entrepreneurs: Supporting New Beginnings Away from Home
Around the world, over 80 million individuals are displaced according to the UN Refugee Agency, with many forced to flee their homes for prolonged periods of time due to protracted internal crises. Wh...
23 Nov 202227min
