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Interested in exploring who we become when we leave what we know? I share short personal essays about identity, loss, and healing as they’re written. If you’d like to receive occasional pieces, I’d love for you to join me on this journey.

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MIT Sloan Management Review

Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?

Reworked

Want Collaborative Teams? Hire Collaborative People.

Reworked

7 Tips for Centering Effective Collaboration Amid Rapid Growth

Let Grow

Exactly a Year Ago My Tween Was on The Staten Island Ferry, Sinking

Psychology Today

Honest Conversations

Medium

Political Yard Signs: What’s the Point?

Fortune

‘Do You Value Freedom of Expression?’ 6 Questions for Your College Tour

The Hill

When college students self-censor, society loses

The Hechinger Report

College graduates lack preparation in the skill most valued by employers — collaboration

Psychology Today

How Do You See It?

University Business Insider

Here’s a COVID-era case for inter-institutional collaboration

Psychology Today

Talk Tokens: A Key to Tough Conversations

Medium

Attachment security leads to prosocial sharing, but is anyone feeling secure right now?

Reason

10 Colleges Where You Won't Have To Walk on Eggshells

Inside Higher Ed

Avoiding Postelection Student Unrest

University Business

It’s time to rebuild—with diversity in mind

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