Hello, 2018–and the aftershocks of 2017 and all it brought. Excited about the announcement from the Today Show that Hoda Kotb is the permanent new co-host of that show–ratings have […]

Steinem and Mankiller School for Organizers (Originally published by The Women’s Media Center) By Carol Jenkins | July 15, 2015 It was a collision of worlds: on-the-ground activists from across […]

Happy to add my voice to Take the Lead Women’s survey on women’s leadership and how to reach parity by 2025, a mere ten years from now.  Some great ideas […]

To: Carol Jenkins Dear Carol, In the past few weeks we lost two bright lights and good friends of the Women’s Media Center: singer and songwriter Lesley Gore and journalist […]

I have been thinking, ever since the election of Bill de Blasio, of what it means to experience a progressive thinking mayor. So now I can report, a month into […]

I am still thinking about Jesmyn Ward’s memoir, Men We Reaped. The title comes from Harriet Tubman, one brave Black woman abolitionist who led hundreds of slaves to freedom on […]

The most fascinating potential alliance announced this week: newly-elected New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, and the conservative Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. While holding true to his reputation and threatening […]

There are currently enough homeless kids in the city to fill Madison Square Garden and still leave a few thousand for the Barclays Center Shola Olatoye, Enterprise Community Partners, NYDaily […]

At brunch today with a friend, discussing local (the NYC mayoral outcome) and world (what to do about Syria) events, it occurred to me that what Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

This summer I am reading the nonfiction of James Baldwin–his essays, reviews, lectures, speeches. He was a masterful essayist, and while re-reading “Notes of a Native Son,” the essay for […]