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Is AI This Generation’s Internet?
At 12 years old, I told my dad I didn’t need dial up internet. A few years later, it became my lifeline while living overseas. Today, as AI reshapes work and society, I find myself asking a familiar question: Is this another internet moment, and do I embrace it or watch from the sidelines?
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Am I Training My Replacement? Thoughts From a Former USAID Officer
After leaving USAID, I found myself exploring AI training work—and wrestling with an uncomfortable question: am I adapting to the future, or helping build my own replacement? This is one career transition I never expected.
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The Future of Development: The Book Isn’t Finished
Earlier this month marked one year since thousands of us at USAID were separated from the agency through the Reduction in Force. While I’ve come to terms with the end of that chapter in my career, I don’t believe the story of American foreign assistance is over. As policymakers debate what comes next, perhaps the…
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Closing the Gap: Why the Future of Work Must Account for Caregiving
Final piece in the series Work, Care, and the Missing Middle For too long, the structure of work has assumed something that is no longer true. That most workers have uninterrupted availability. That caregiving happens outside of professional life. And that productivity can be measured primarily in hours spent at a desk. These assumptions are…
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The Return-to-Work Cliff: Why So Many Mothers Don’t Come Back the Same
Part of the series Work, Care, and the Missing Middle There is a moment that does not get talked about enough. It is not the moment a child is born. It is not even the moment a parent decides to return to work. It is the moment you actually try to go back. The other…
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The Childcare Cost Trap: When Working No Longer Makes Financial Sense
Part of the series Work, Care, and the Missing Middle There is a moment many parents encounter, often quietly and sometimes with a bit of disbelief, when the numbers stop making sense. For me, that understanding did not come all at once. During COVID, I remember speaking with a relative who had been laid off.…
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The Missing Middle of the Modern Workforce: Why Fractional Jobs Are the Future for Caregivers
This article is part of a series, Work, Care, and the Missing Middle, exploring how motherhood, caregiving, and economic policy intersect with the future of professional work. Drawing from both personal experience and a career in public service, this series looks at the growing gap between how we work and how we live—and what it…
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