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Shondiin Mayo is originally from Stevens Village, Alaska, and grew up in both Fairbanks and the Navajo Nation. She is Diné (Navajo) and Tleeyegge Hut’aane and is of the Bitterwater Clan…

Why is plastic waste a c-suite issue, and how can corporate leaders have a positive impact on plastic waste reduction, while potentially benefiting their businesses? Plastic waste reduction is not…

Changes in the workplace spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic have given many of us more flexibility in our place of work. Lockdowns and social distancing often meant holding work meetings from whatever…

At AVID, we’ve learned that when educators believe in their ability to act and that their action will bring about the desired outcome, they become even more efficient and effective. With collective educator agency, educators take intentional actions grounded in the belief that together, they can…

Two new studies highlight the vulnerability of California forests. Climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, has heated the atmosphere faster than conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains can adapt, shifting their ideal elevation 600 feet above where it…

Expanding Medicaid eligibility reduced Black-white disparities in preventable hospitalizations and ER visits by 10% or more, a new study shows.

This blog explores what a social movement is and is not, and explains how movements can be built and sustained to stand the test of time.

When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought—if any—went to the implications of their lifespan and the fact that they can take centuries to decompose. Consequently,…

The majority of women in the workforce earn less than men for performing the same work — and a new report found that for health and care workers, the discrepancy…

Even as schools wield billions of dollars in federal COVID relief, only a small fraction of students have received tutoring to combat pandemic learning loss.