Faces of Freelance: Meet Carolyn
An award-winning producer on how freelancers bring freedom and innovation to structured work environments.
At a Queens campus known for producing NBA stars, the can’t-miss Cardozo squad and their record-setting coach treat high school b-ball as much more than just a game.
The Cardozo High School boys basketball team has the winningest coach in NYC public school history, and a roster of top college prospects. Yet, in each of the last four years they’ve fallen just short in the Queens championship final. After a season packed with hefty highs and alarming lows, the Cardozo kids found themselves once again on the verge of being Queens champs – or Queens chumps.
An award-winning producer on how freelancers bring freedom and innovation to structured work environments.
A new dad on the nightmare-inducing challenge of coming up with a timeless but fresh, cool but not too cool name for his son.
A filmmaker and surfer proudly explores her Indigenous roots, and discovers that thrill-seeking runs in the family.
The coalminer’s daughter. The bartender. The police brutality activist. The grieving mother. Each looked at the man representing her in Congress and said, “I can do better.”
Amy Vilela lost her daughter when she couldn’t afford the medical bills. When her Congressman told her he wouldn’t support universal healthcare, Amy said, “I’m running.”
Cori Bush is a registered nurse, a pastor and a mom. After taking to the streets to protest police killings, she looked in the mirror and said, “why not politician, too?”
In early 2018, we introduced you to a bartender from the Bronx trying to pull off what many said was impossible. Here’s how AOC became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
Paula Jean Swearengin has seen West Virginia’s land exploited, its people fall ill, and its politicians do nothing. So she decided to do something herself.
As Mark McKinley puts it, “no collector ever says, ‘I’ve gone too far.'” After 27 years and an official Guinness World Record, he stands by that statement.
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