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Essential Risk: NYC Plumber Judaline Cassidy On Working In Building Trades During COVID-19 Crisis

wyskApril 16, 2020

Judaline Cassidy has been a plumber in NYC for more than two decades. She is a master of her craft, and a champion of equality in the still male-dominated cons...

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Working Out At Home With RBG… As Played By Kate McKinnon

wyskApril 13, 2020

RBG, or more officially Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (as brilliantly played by SNL's Kate McKinnon), invites people to join her workout at home. W...

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“Miss Kim” From Museum Of Fine Arts St. Pete Creates Hands-On ‘Art Break’ Series For Little Learners At Home Everywhere

wyskApril 9, 2020

Art museums are a playground for exploration and creativity. In pre-coronavirus times, Kimberlynn Martin, Manager of Education and Youth Programs for the Museu...

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Girl Coded App For Best Friend With Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Inspires Creation Of True Hero Hospital Doll

wyskApril 7, 2020

At 18 months old, Grace O’Malley was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 (SMA2), a disease that affects "the motor nerve cells in the spinal cord, ta...

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Fact v Fiction: “And The People Stayed Home” Viral Poem By Kitty O’Meara (2020), Not Kathleen O’Mara (1869)

wyskApril 6, 2020

"And the people stayed home." This is the opening line of an untitled poem that’s gone wildly viral. Social media posts shared now 10s of 1,000s of times by pe...

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Candid Conversation With Jen Haller, The First Person To Receive Injection Of Trial Coronavirus Vaccine

wyskMarch 23, 2020

On Monday, March 16, in a monumental act of courage and selflessness, Jen Haller, age 43, became the first person to receive the first-ever injection of an inv...

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Sitara: Let Girls Dream – Animated Short Spotlights Child Marriage, Aims To Spark Global Conversation

wyskMarch 5, 2020

Sitara: Let Girls Dream, an animated short directed by two-time Oscar-winner and three-time Emmy-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and produced by Gloria Steinem an...

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TIME’S UP PSA Shines A Light On Women In Film, Television, And Visual Content Production

wyskFebruary 27, 2020

Led by its Women’s Production Group, the TIME’S UP Foundation created this Public Service Announcement and companion resource guide to change the fact that "wo...

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“Underdog” Choir Spotlights Gender Disparity Around Women Music Producers

wyskFebruary 26, 2020

"Only 2% of popular music is produced by women." - Annenberg Inclusion Initiative This choral arrangement of Alicia Keys' "Underdog", beautifully perf...

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