Free Radicals

Using Commerce to Understand Everything

How Web Smith maps the connections between race, commerce, and history.

Monique Woodard’s Paradox

How the founder of Cake Ventures invests to create progress

Doers, Makers, and Manifesters: Talking with Cannaclusive founder Mary Pryor

Despite its transformative potential, the cannabis industry has a huge equity problem.

Albrey Brown hopes we never have to have this conversation again

Airtable's head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is ready for tech culture to change

“The work better be right:” The data kingdom of Jeremy Singer-Vine

The National Magazine Award winner and Buzzfeed News data editor relies on transparency, generosity, and collaboration to hold power accountable

Brittany Chavez: Make vulnerability your leadership style

For Brittany Chavez the journey from Uber driver to founder has been an unconventional path through the tech world, and she wouldn't have it any other way.

♥ 7 Jun 5, 2021

Julie Elberfeld is listening

A hard look at leadership inspired a longtime CIO to transform diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the tech industry.

For Holden Page, director of FinLedger, business writing is changing tech for the better

He's an optimist in a habitually gloomy industry

Breaking the Dam, with Sameer Gardezi

Sameer Gardezi likes to tell stories and his most beloved project is his biggest yet—rewriting Hollywood altogether.

“We created our own.”

How Ciara Imani May is reimagining Black hair and the beauty industry

♥ 4 Mar 12, 2021

VCs are *still* ignoring Black founders. What can we do now?

The authors of a new book on the history and future of diversity in venture capital break some of the industry’s biggest secrets and reveal its most entrenched problems

Leaving the party: Award-winning author Julia Turshen on what comes after success

What kind of life becomes possible once you've achieved your dreams?

Kim Roxie: What I don’t know is the future

The Houston-based entrepreneur transformed her company from a brick and mortar business into a beautytech brand with the potential to go global by embracing the unknown.

Leadership is a Verb

Leigh-Ann Buchanan is shaping a new generation of innovators

Welcome to Free Radicals

A very belated welcome to Free Radicals. When we launched this newsletter in September of 2020, we just sent it out into the world without really taking a moment to stop and properly introduce ourselves.