This week, March 11, 2021, marks the one year anniversary of the landmark declaration by the World Health Organization that established COVID19 as a pandemic. While the world has been wrestling with the disease outbreaks caused by SARS-CoV-2. My partner and I have been wrestling with our own personal challenge, one that in the context […]
Co-Founder Stories
#ProofPoints: An Ending + A Beginning
Acknowledgement #1: I am grateful to Tayo Akinyemi for suggesting that I write this essay, and for reading and critiquing previous drafts. I am grateful to Kange Kaneene, Christian McKenzie, Christine Mendonça, and Lisa Morales-Hellebo for reading and critiquing previous drafts. Their comments and observations helped to greatly improve the final product. Any errors are […]
#CountDown: 3 Days to #TNYSCM04 – Supply Chain & Artificial Intelligence
We’re now less than a week from The New York Supply Chain Meetup’s fourth gathering. The purpose of this post is to outline our plans for that event, and preview what we expect to do between now and June 2018 . . . We’re still in the early days of building this community, so much of this is subject to […]
#CountDown: 5 Days to The New York Supply Chain Meetup #03
We’re now less than a week from The New York Supply Chain Meetup’s third gathering. The purpose of this post is to outline our plans for that event, and preview what we expect to do between now and June 2018 . . . We’re still in the early days of building this community, so much of this is subject to […]
A Story About Startup Cofounder Teamwork: Climbing To The Summit of Denali
On June 30th, 2015, Naira Musallam and her climbing partner, Tim Lawton successfully summited Denali (Mount McKinley). They made history as The First Arab-American Team to ever do so. Naira also became the first Arab woman to stand on the summit of Denali. Standing at 20,320 feet, Denali is one of the “Seven Summits” because […]