Marketing professional with a passion for travel
For years, I’ve groaned at the ending to every made-for-TV Christmas movie. This year, I’ve realized that sometimes a dramatic change is actually the right move to get your life going in the direction that you want.
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On September 11, 2001, I was a sixth grader sitting in a second period social studies in New Jersey when my teacher unexpectedly answered her phone a few minutes into class. Her husband, a truck driver, wanted to know if she’d heard about the attacks on the Twin Towers. Twenty years later, my memory of […]
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Last quarter, I posted about my goal to diversify my reading list in 2021. It’s hard to believe that another quarter has flown by — it’s time to post what I read in Q2 (plus the July 4th holiday weekend). As a reminder, I’m classifying these books and authors based on information that’s disclosed by […]
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Over the past year and a half, I’ve optimized many aspects of my life. I’ve decluttered around 50 bags of stuff from my 1-bedroom apartment. Despite my hatred of leftovers, I’ve started cooking or buying meals in bulk. I organized my entire life in Notion, including everything from personal finance to healthy habits to shopping […]
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This was the question posed to me when I was recently opining that I was feeling burnt out and my usual little tricks for feeling better were doing nothing. Hanging up the laundry, organizing underneath my kitchen sink, and taking out the trash – the type of household chores that clear space and usually make […]
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Towards the end of 2019, I finally did something about the clutter in my apartment. I was overwhelmed long before that, but I had no idea how to tackle the problem. Luckily, 2019 was the start of the minimalist craze. Reading Gretchen Rubin’s Outer Order, Inner Calm and watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo were […]
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When demographic questions are not written thoughtfully, the impact can actually cause respondents – your employees, customers, or other stakeholders whose opinions you care about, or you wouldn’t be surveying – to feel excluded by your words.
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I am reading more books this year by authors representing demographics typically missing on my reading list and in publishing in general. On my Read and Reading lists this quarter, there’s three authors of color and one aroace author, representing three different countries.
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Last week, I tweeted this: According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, normal is according with, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, or principle. Based on this definition, nothing about our current state of affairs can be normal. It’s not normal for there to be a pandemic… that’s impacting the entire world… and preventing anyone […]
Read MoreI’m excited to announce that I have started a new role as the Marketing and Communications Manager at Addgene in Watertown, MA! Addgene is a nonprofit plasmid repository that supports open science and reagent sharing. I will be advancing the data-driven marketing strategy at Addgene as part of the Outreach Team. I’m very excited to move […]
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Aliyah Weinstein 