Tech Whistleblowers: Honoring Ifeoma Ozoma

According to her LinkedIn profile, Ifeoma Ozoma is the Founder and Principal of Earthseed, a consulting firm advising individuals, organizations, and companies on the issues of tech accountability, public policy, health misinformation, and related communications. She is a tech policy expert with experience leading global public policy partnerships, public policy related content safety development, and US Federal, State, and International policymaker engagement at Pinterest, Facebook, and Google.

Cassandra Returns, Courage, WhistleblowersLORI EBERLYFebruary 22, 2021#timesup, heroes, whistleblowers, harassment, ifeomaozoma

Language Heals: Understanding Institutional Betrayal

Have you had that experience where a word or phrase lands like the answer to a riddle you didn’t know you were searching for? I was researching trauma + sexual harassment when I stumbled upon Dr. Jennifer' Freyd’s work on institutional betrayal and betrayal trauma. These concepts deeply resonated in my body, creating that know-in-your-bones feeling of being found and understood. Turns out my pain has a name - and a remedy.

Courage, Trauma, Leadership, Cassandra ReturnsLORI EBERLYFebruary 4, 2021me too, times up tech, sexual harassment, sexual violence

Toward a Life of Balance

As the year comes to an end, we reflect on what went right or wrong and how to course correct for the future. We are desperate to find a "new normal" and a life of balance. But we cannot create a new normal that brings the past forward, unchallenged and unchanged. The coronavirus, the economy, civic unrest, social inequities, and all the rest of it will still be there, waiting for us on the other side of midnight. Then what? As we approach 2021, how can we meet it with eyes wide open, a heart full of courage, and our hands outstretched to offer our best to everything and everyone that comes our way?

Courage, Self-Awareness, EmpathyLORI EBERLYDecember 16, 2020year-end reflection, change management, self awareness, growth

The Worst Thing White Women Can Do is Freeze

I have had an emotional hangover all month. What I (and many black women) need are trusted, sensitive, woke allies, advocates, and activists in which we can share our emotional burdens. I am trying to do that for the folks at the front lines of racial inequity, but I have limited capacity.

Notes from Outside the Comfort Zone

Everyone—regardless of their title or expertise—has a “zone of genius”, that place where either 10,000 hours of experience or innate talent or a little of both come together masterfully. Put another way, mastery is your zone of genius. It’s your A-game, your superpower—that thing you do like nobody else. And nothing shuts it down—not even a pandemic.