Minerva Strategies is privileged to partner with professionals from around the world who share our values and excitement about communicating to support positive change. We are fortunate to partner with Akiko Baron Design, LLC across several client relationships, including projects with the Client Justice Resilience Fund, Seattle Foundation, and so many others. Whether creating a…
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Elise McGlothian Any consultant knows that good client relationships can be the difference between loving our work or wanting to take a permanent vacation. When a relationship isn’t working how we hoped it would, it’s easy to point the finger—the client may think “the consultant doesn’t understand us” while the consultant complains “the client isn’t giving us…
Sara Veltkamp I visited Italy for the first time when I was 14. I was very fortunate that my parents, after many years vacationing exclusively at the Jersey Shore, had finally saved up enough money to travel internationally. As the much younger of three kids—the “oops baby” you might say—they decided to take me with them. The…
Joy Portella “Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” – Toni Morrison We often don’t think about how powerful our words are—they create worlds and experiences for everyone around us. Living in a country colonized by oppressors, we have been conditioned to casually…
Kati Rodríguez Pérez “How do people manage to do this every day?” This is a question I asked myself last year after a long day of work. When you’re starting a career, there can be a lot of internal and external pressure to perform at high levels at all times. I would find myself coming home full of…
Lauren Slater In June 2021, Minerva Strategies submitted an application to South by Southwest (SXSW) PanelPicker® on behalf of our client, Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF). The SXSW PanelPicker allows attendees to have a significant voice in conference programming for both SXSW and SXSW Edu. SXSW is known all over the globe as a conglomeration of film,…
Global health folks use a lot of big numbers. And why wouldn’t they? The globe is a big place with lots of people. To measure progress in population health, we need to track outcomes at the population level. But personally, I find it hard to relate to big numbers. When I read a news article…
Kayla McMenamin Each February, our country spends 28 days (sometimes 29!) celebrating the achievements by African Americans and honoring their role in U.S. History. When I thought of the intersection of Black History Month and communications, I immediately thought of Dr. Felicia Blow, APR. Although I had never made her acquaintance prior to our Q&A, her pictures…
Who else feels like we’re all just yelling into a void these days? That even our most thoughtfully prepared, well-researched ideas and solutions to big problems only lead to arguments where both sides are more concerned with being right than reaching a mutual understanding? Just me? I didn’t think so. This style of approaching community discourse and problem solving is especially troubling amid a…
By Elise McGlothian— Astead Herndon is a national political reporter for The New York Times. He was previously a Washington-based political reporter and a City Hall reporter for The Boston Globe. As an undergraduate at the Marquette University in Wisconsin, Astead took a year off to work inside of a classroom through AmeriCorps. His experience eventually landed him…