Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work was released on August 11 (which also happens to be my birthday!). Friends, family, and colleagues joined me for a virtual book release event. In the video, I talk about the book, read some excerpts, poll the audience […]
Congressional Woman of the Year
It was wonderful to be selected by Representative Salud Carbajal as a 2019 Congressional Woman of the Year for the California 24th District for the work I do on LGBT issues. Here’s what I said when I received the award. If you read or watch to the end, you’ll know what to ask me to […]
Canada’s Maritime Provinces
We spent a week in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia this summer. Here are a few recommendations… New Brunswick St. Martins – Visit the beach with the sea caves at low tide. We didn’t have time to do the Fundy Trail Parkway, but I wish we had! We spent a few hours […]
#Charlottesville
My hometown has become a hashtag. I grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia in the 1970’s and 80’s. It was a quiet, Southern college town. My biracial family moved there in 1968; only a year earlier the marriage of my Chinese-American mother and New York Jew father would not have been legal in Virginia, but I […]