U3 Advisors is a development company that works unlike most others. It aims to respect a place’s history while helping it move towards a better future. Read the article here.
Author: Natalie
Another Generation Change profile
This one is about Chris Cera, a local tech entrepreneur who tries to help local businesses. From the article: Philadelphia’s business tax laws are complex, confusing, and controversial, particularly its high wage tax and practice of double-taxing commercial entities. When…
Helping kids with asthma by improving their home environments.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP+) was launched in 2018. Its mission: Improve the health and overall well-being of the one in four children in West Philadelphia i diagnosed with the condition.It does this by making…
Ideas we should steal — from thephiladelphiacitizen
It’s mind-blowing that the federal minimum wage is STILL $7.25/hour. This article I wrote for The Philadelphia Citizen talks about a program using government funds to help small businesses pay their employees a higher hourly wage. Your thoughts?
Have you watched Abbott Elementary yet?
Abbott Elementary is a funny, thoughtful sitcom about the teachers and students (and a fabulous principal and a scene-stealing janitor) teaching and learning in a Philadelphia public school and the challenges they face. It just wrapped its second season and…
Generation Change and a health care program that’s working
Generation Change is a partnership between The Philadelphia Citizen and Keepers of the Commons to highlight and bring together future leaders in the city. In this piece, I write about Dr. Shreya Kangovi and IMPact, the Community Health Worker program…
The Philadelphia Citizen
The Philadelphia Citizen is a web-only publication that focuses on solutions journalism. I started writing for them about a year ago and every story is interesting and important. (Seriously.) I thought I’d finally share: First up, this one about the…
For GoodRX: What I eat as a chemo patient
Chemotherapy can change the way foods taste or smell, and stimulate an appetite or suppress it. (It’s a misconception that people receiving chemotherapy lose weight. Some do; some don’t.) Favorite foods can become repulsive, enjoyable smells can be intolerable, and…
The new definition of WFH
A year ago I wrote this Philadelphia Inquirer article about how working from home now means working from a coffee shop, a park bench, even the cafeteria at Ikea and it’s still relevant today.
For GoodRX: What Insomnia Feels Like: 3 People Share What Gets Them to Sleep
We’ve all had those nights, when no matter how tired we are, sleep doesn’t come. Here’s my article on the subject.