Community

For the past few months I’ve been fortunate enough to be invited to participate in set of “Emerging Leader” professional development trainings at work. I feel honored to have been selected and have been really learning a lot. One of our sessions was about how to be your authentic self as a colleague and a …

For the last three weeks, I have been working out of the KQED headquarters in the Mission District of San Francisco. Despite several COVID-19 protocols put in place, such as mask-wearing required indoors, it’s been a mostly pleasant, productive, and even enjoyable experience. A lot of it has to do with how awesome our newly …

I have a couple of dear colleagues and friends who serve as my professional mentors. We’ve met once a month, mostly over Skype, for the last 4-5 years. We’ve seen each other through many transitions, dramas, shake-ups and job changes. When we started, we had a very simple structure to our time together. Each of …

I’ve been thinking about work celebrations lately. At my current place of employ, KQED, they do work parties well. Which is a non-trivial job perk, the more that I think about it. As an undergrad, I volunteered at an employment agency for recently homeless individuals in downtown Los Angeles. It was a really valuable experience …

Last night I moderated an interesting panel of community managers working with a wide variety of institutions — one governmental, one nonprofit, and one for-profit. A friend of mine who heard about the event asked me what is a community manager. I have my own ideas about what community management means, from more than 15 …