Kids Books, Community, Diversity & Inclusion . By Maya Smart | July 20 , 2015

Summer Reading: 5 Amazing Books for Amazing Girls

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Community, Author & Leader Interviews . By Maya Smart | September 23 , 2015

Heather Bellino: Ending Domestic Violence

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Zora’s 4th Birthday Party

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Community, Diversity & Inclusion . By Maya Smart | June 22 , 2016

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

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Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Library & Literacy Advocacy . By Maya Smart | January 24 , 2017

Today’s Hidden Figures

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Thank You for Being a Friend!

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Personal Development, Community, Diversity & Inclusion . By Maya Smart | December 28 , 2013

On Singing the Blues

My eyes scanned the words.  They were happy.  No one was singing the blues. But the words did not compute.  I never, with my

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Personal Development, Community . By Maya Smart | January 01 , 2014

Leadership: The Echelman Way

The choice of Janet Echelman’s work to illustrate the Harvard Business Review article “Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers”

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MLK Day Redux

Last night my husband worried that my website was broken.  He’d visited my blog but only saw an image of the Martin Luther

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Personal Development, Community . By Maya Smart | February 13 , 2014

Supermom for Governor: Why Wendy Davis Puts Her Personal Narrative First in Texas Campaign

An article titled “The Legend of Wendy Davis” will appear in the New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend. 

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