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Chief Taps AvroKO to Design Clubhouses for Women
Collaboration yields the private network’s lively spaces made by women for women
Words by: Alia Akkam + Stacy Shoemaker Rauen • Photos by Kristin Francis, Christian Harder, Aubrie Pick, + Anthony Tahlier
Chief cofounders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan
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Collaboration yields the private network’s lively spaces made by women for women
Words by: Alia Akkam + Stacy Shoemaker Rauen • Photos by Kristin Francis, Christian Harder, Aubrie Pick, + Anthony Tahlier
Between the panels Lindsay Kaplan appears on and the advice-dispensing coffee dates she agrees to, the cofounder of Chief, the exclusive network that arms C-suite women with tailored guidance and resources, sometimes marvels at her path to leadership. Many other executive women, she discovered, do too.
M. Lindsay Kaplan on Antisemitism to Racism
Medieval claims about the Jews’ criminal role in the crucifixion consigned them to an enslaved status, indicating their inherent inferiority relative to Christians. Ecclesiastical law required Jews to behave in accordance with their subservient position; violation of these regulations constituted an additional Jewish crime. Myths of continuing Jewish violence against contemporary Christians also contributed to a view of Jews as inherent criminals, permanent and eternal enemies of Christianity. This idea undermined neighborly relations between the two faith groups, eroded sympathy for Jews, and licensed state, church and popular hostility against them.
The same elements used so effectively to racialize medieval Jews are also at work in American anti-Black racism. (While a similar argument could be made of the intersection of charges of crime and inferiority as constitutive elements of Nazi anti-Jewish racism, this era falls outside the f
Harris has notched a series of firsts during a legal and political career that has taken her from California to the office of vice president in Washington.
The 56-year-old daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants was the first woman and person of color to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney, the first woman and first Black person to become California’s attorney general, the first Black person to represent California in the U.S. Senate and the first woman, Black person and Asian American to be elected vice president.
She is also the first vice president with a historically Black college, Howard University, for an alma mater.
A shattered glass portrait of Kamala Harris was erected on the National Mall to commemorate her being the first woman and woman of color elected as vice president.