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Techstars and The Nature Conservancy

Feld Thoughts

Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. Heather Tallis , TNC’s Global Managing Director and Lead Scientist for Strategy Innovation, generously participated in our August 2017 Anchor Point Fellowship in Global Leadership Conference.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Of Course #BlackLivesMatter — How Could Anything be LESS Controversial?

Both Sides of the Table

As a white person I cannot accept that the GOP candidate for office was the leading voice in the United States for the “birther movement,” which questioned the citizenship of the president of the United States because his father was from Kenya. You can stand with the police while demanding that they treat our African American citizens better.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? So it seems like there's been this mass denial in certain countries, in certain states, driven it seems like by political leadership that somehow we can avoid these hard decisions, and it will somehow work out. And you look at an example like Kenya, for example.