Gloria is a campaign innovator focused on the strategic combination of powerful messaging, technology and data, and grassroots organizing in order to drive engagement, build on-the-ground power, and move issues forward. Prior to MomsRising, she was principal for Internet communications strategy at Turner Strategies, where she launched online communities around issues ranging from climate change and democracy to civil rights and women's health. Gloria conceived and helped found the influential 2009 Fem2.0 conference and the Fem2.0 online community. As communications director for the media futures think tank, the Institute for the Connected Society (iFOCOS), she was an early adopter of online platforms, including blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, and was a driving force in building the We Media conferences into a must-attend event for the media vanguard. She speaks Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and French with varying degrees of fluency.
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January 23, 2012
January 23 marks the Lunar New Year, a time for many Asian communities to gather in celebration. Some may don new clothes and exchange gifts or red envelopes, while others may light firecrackers, throw water and participate in lion dances and parades. Whatever the variation in Lunar New Year traditions across Asia’s many cultures, mouth-wateringly great food will be central to all of them. The festivities should be particularly lively this time around, because 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, the mightiest sign in the Chinese zodiac. Dragons are magnificent. People born under this sign are...
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January 23, 2012
Amy Chua ousted the timid Rabbit and made 2011 the Year of the Tiger. Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , a memoir about how she raised fabulously successful children through strict parenting, became a global phenomenon. Parents everywhere fiercely debated the pros and cons of Chua’s extreme methods, but love her or hate her, all agreed that Chua is formidable. Well Pshaw, Amy Chua. You Tiger Moms may know how to turn little kids into scholastic giants and musical prodigies, but how about picking on someone closer to your own size? January 23 is the Chinese New Year and the beginning...
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January 20, 2012
Every day, moms across the country get together – as teams, task forces, coffee klatches, etc. – to discuss, plan and organize projects and activities for the benefit of their families, schools and communities. That’s exactly what MomsRising’s Sarah Francis and I did yesterday. The meeting place, however, was not the school cafeteria or the local library. It was the United States Environmental Protection Agency , and our “mom committee” included the likes of Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, Mocha Moms Co-Founder and President Emerita Cheli English-...
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January 21, 2010
We work long hours. We work multiple jobs. We can barely afford healthcare, or we’re doing without. We’re stitching together childcare, or we’re sending our kids to school with H1N1. We exert ourselves to be good spouses, sons and daughters, parents, members of our community, friends - in snatched moments from being good but insecure employees. And while we may talk amongst ourselves about hard it is to manage it all, perhaps we feel that this is just life and try to muddle through as best we can, on our own… …leaving the professional media to define the outlines of America’s work/life story...
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July 7, 2009
(This piece is part of the Fem2.0 blog carnival : For Women, the Other Side of Work Isn't Play, It's Caregiving. ) I’m tired. My job and two kids take it out of me both physically and mentally, every day. The husband, a most loving partner and doting father, is happy to help, eager for instruction like a dog waiting for its master’s next command. When he’s not focusing on his 70-plus-hours-a-week job, that is. Some days, I resent this terribly. At what point in our game of house did the rules change so that he should be the one free to go out and beat the world while I assume full...
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