As our series premieres at the Sundance Film Festival, read how my career has come full circle after working 25 years in the film industry.
All in Inspire
I Am A Girl From Africa
Elizabeth Nyamayaro is an award-winning Humanitarian who has held critical leadership positions at the United Nations, The World Health Organization, and The World Bank. She shares her powerful and unique life story in her new memoir, “I Am A Girl From Africa.”
RISE UP
Meet Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. This recent Harvard graduate and Presidential Inaugural speaker demonstrates resilience, critical action, and creativity — proving youth is not wasted on the young.
BLUE CRUSH
Watch me, Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake come together for a reunion Zoom conversation in an epic tell all of how this movie changed our lives forever.
HEY, DOLL
A farewell inspires a hello: How the loss of my grandmother led to the creation of KIND.EST
GOODBYE CROP TOP
A podcast conversation with Wendy Euler. 'Goodbye Crop Top" is a place where women can come to understand how beautiful it is just to be... to be your age but do it with gumption, and strength, and to look damn good in the process.
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Welcome to my hometown! From my high school bedroom (which still remains exactly the same), to the halls of my high school (and the friends I met there). This article explores the significance of home and how a place can inform our identity.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A TRANSGENDER WOMAN
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence that year. I asked my dear friend, Arisce Wanzer, to personally pen an essay to share her story with us. In the article, she brilliantly imparts the significance of the transgender community and how it is vital to protect their safety.
AMAZING GRACE
Join me and my mom in conversation on critical topics that are often under explored: age // ageism and how they relate to society’s perception of worthiness.
JUST LIKE HEAVEN
A love letter to my husband, as we celebrate our seventh year married.
VITAL VOICES
On Women’s Equality Day, I am joined in conversation with two of the most powerful women I know, Bozoma Saint John and Alyse Nelson.
The Big Leagues
A Harvard University recorded conversation on: Mental Health, Racial Disparities & Environmental Justice. Join me, Erica Chidi and Dr. Karestan Koenen as we consider these complex issues, while also embracing our most critical and sustainable human offering: hope.
(IN)VISIBLE PORTRAITS: REWRITING OUR CULTURAL CODE
OP-ED by Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American studies at Princeton University. Dr. Ruha writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.
(In)Visible Portraits
An introduction penned by filmmaker Oge Egbuonu for her new documentary feature film, (In)Visible Portraits. Additional OP-ED written by Dr. Ruha Benjamin; scholar, professor and author, who reflects on the film as “a beautiful opportunity to be authors in shaping our new social contracts – with ourselves and with our depiction of Black experiences.” *Link to watch (In)Visible Portraits in article
SIX FEET APART
Meet Los Angeles based photographer, Mary Peffer, and explore her poignant shelter-in-place portrait series: SIX FEET APART. For this project, Mary captures female subjects in their “new normal”, observing each from a safe distance during the current COVID-19 lockdown. As a participant in this series, I am thrilled Mary agreed to have her work included on KIND.EST. Read on to discover what inspired this project and what Mary learned in the process.
HAPPY MOTHER(S) DAY
In honor of Mother’s Day this year, I asked my stepdaughter’s biological mother, Jo Strettell, to join me in a recorded ZOOM video conversation about the experience of raising the same beautiful daughter, Jasper. I am grateful to say, she said yes. It’s time to disarm those negative social stereotypes between biological mother and stepmother — because all we feel is love.
WORK IN PROGRESS
A few weeks ago, dear friend Sophia Bush invited me to virtually participate in her podcast WORK IN PROGRESS. Listen in as we chat vulnerability, moving inward, and what it means to be a “long game girl.”