“Just living the dream” he said as we walked out of class in college more than 12 years ago. I had asked him to tell me about his photography jobs and was im...

ACTING FILIPINO I could count Filipino money (pesos) just by looking at the color of the bill, and I felt proud. My moment of appreciation disappeared as I r...

We were the only brown kids in the photo. Like the rhyme from Sesame Street, “one of these things is not like the others,” my sister and I looked similar to ...

“Come onnnnn” he taunted, looking out at the horizon. “I’m getting cold” another joked, mockingly rubbing his arms over his wet suit. As they longingly searc...

“Austin is a liberal bastion in the middle of Texas” she said while sitting cross-legged on a leather ottoman in the lobby of the Hotel San Jose. Lindsey was...

Although I wrote this four years ago, I’m about to board a plane to meet the same friend referenced in this story, so with a sense of both irony and nostalgi...

Sure I could say New York is big, and crowded, and busy, and expensive. I could talk about riding the subway, and how if you’re not quick enough to grab a se...

"Throughout our conversation he said things like 'you need your rest to prepare for your program' and 'it will be very different where we are going.' These k...

A Jewelry Designers Traveling Path to Success At 5’9” tall, with luxuriously long blonde hair and big brown eyes, MJ Barton, Founder and CEO of Electric Pick...

My Twitter account had become a source of anxiety for me, and the longer I stayed away the more my online inactivity haunted me. "I SHOULD BE ON THERE. ENGAG...

Dan Frysinger helps companies and organizations discover new ways to be innovative. In our conversation, Dan shares easy ways that anyone can be innovative i...

Two self-made creative entrepreneurs open up about financial struggles, what keeps them up at night, and how they revel in the freedom of being in control of...

This is the second post in our ‘Chicago Women in STEM’ series. Yesenia Sotelo and Beth Santos are two self-taught developers and entrepreneurs that built com...

After a life-changing trip to Haiti, Jacques Achille became “obsessively curious” with the idea of how to make all of humanity feel like a community. He star...

This is the first post in our new ‘Chicago Women in STEM’ series It was the “cool projects” in high school physics class that allowed Angie to discover her l...

When did Uber turn into the new elevator ride? Awkwardly sitting in silence, awaiting your destination. And even more so with Uber Pool, where you share your...

In 2008 a friend and I were in Belize when we saw a couple kayaks by the roadside. We found the guy renting them and after lazily shuffling through a few pap...