Below is a selection of book reviews, op-eds, essays, and podcasts; the archive is here, sorted by topic. (You can find all of my writing for The Atlantic here, including my series on corporate changemakers.) Also check out the posts I wrote for The Life I Want blog from from 2019-22, reimagining the role of work in our lives, communities, and societies.

Photo by Liam Pickhardt for TEDxMcMinnville.

Read

To improve girls' well-being, get them on the rugby pitch,” Yamhill County News-Register, 7 Jul ‘23

The carbon footprint of college reunions,” Yamhill County News-Register, 2 Jun ‘23

Tyrants at the Top: Are Jack Welch and McKinsey to Blame?” (p. 9) Yamhill County News-Register, 3 Mar ‘23

Gun safety isn't just about laws,” Yamhill County News-Register, 12 Aug ‘22

This is how to quit without harboring regrets,Fast Company, 16 Nov ‘21

Opinion: This long-standing tenet of American capitalism must change — now,” with Wesley Longhofer on Ensia, 24 Sept ‘20

Roundtable discussion on Milton Friedman with faculty of the Teaching Business & Human Rights Forum, Cambridge Core Blog, 11 Sept ‘20

How parents can help shy and introverted kids through a particularly tough back-to-school season,” Washington Post, 17 Aug ‘20

My profile of Mac Market founders Todd Severson and Diana Riggs, Yamhill County News-Register, 24 Jul ‘20

My interview with three of the student organizers of Black Lives Matters protest in McMinnville, Oregon, Yamhill County News-Register, 12 Jun ‘20

A Portrait of Modern Homelessness: Talking with Lauren Sandler,” author of This Is All I Got, Los Angeles Review of Books, 3 May ‘20

Essay on Bali rice farming experience for Amherst College Alumni Magazine, Summer 2019

"Can Business of Any Size Be Good?" Current Affairs, 24 Jul '18

"Red Hen, Microsoft and the power of workplace activism," Reuters, 28 Jun '18

"The Year I Learned to Quit," The New York Times, 27 Apr '18

"Is the MSW the new MBA?" (Fast Company, 11 Sept '14) wins National Association of Social Workers 2015 Media Award!

"An Iconic Brand, but at What Cost?" (my review of Citizen Coke by Bartow Elmore), strategy+ business, 2 Feb '15

"Read This Before You Buy Another Holiday Gift (or Goat)," The New York Times Motherlode blog, 22 Dec '14

My review of Ice Cream Social: The Ben & Jerry's Story, The Huffington Post, 1 Dec '14

My review of Lord Browne's The Glass Closet, strategy+business, 29 Sept '14

"Why Corporations Fail to Do the Right Thing,The Atlantic, 21 Apr '14

“Book Review: Whole Foods Co-CEO John Mackey's ‘Conscious Capitalism’," The Huffington Post, 28 Jan ‘13

"BP, Goldman Sachs, and Massey could learn a lot from ultimate frisbee," The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jun ‘10 (My first op-ed!)

Listen

Guest, with Eva Dienel, on Purpose Works, 1 Sept ‘22

Guest, with Eva Dienel, on CBC Radio’s Tapestry, 19 Nov ‘21

Guest, with Eva Dienel, on Sustainable Ambition, 27 Apr ‘21

Guest on Life in a Pandemic, 7 Sept ‘20

Guest on Waste Not Why Not, 19 May ‘20

Guest on Office Baggage, 25 Mar ‘20

Guest on ECO CHIC, 22 Jan ‘20

Guest on Boundless, 6 Mar ‘19

Guest on On Adulting’s podcast, Challenging the Collective, 19 Sept ‘18

Guest on KCRW's To The Point discussing sexual harassment, 22 Nov '17 (5:06, 31:15)

What’s the Moral Cost of Doing Business Today?, PBS Frontline, 19 Nov '14

"Corporations as Agents of Change," Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs podcast, 19 May '14

Guest on Harvard Business School's "The Business," 6 May '14

Interview with Leonard Lopate on WNYC, 27 Mar '14

Interview with John Hockenberry on The Takeaway, 25 Mar '14