Around 12noon today August 10th, 2021, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned effective in 14-days with plans to transition to Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hocul. She will be the state’s first woman Governor.

I felt it necessary to personally address the topic from an organizational Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging (D&I) standpoint. NY State is Inclusion Corporation’s headquarters state and I am one of the elected members of the state’s Democratic party that signed a petition along with party members to remove The Governor on March 7th of this year. …

Originally at Data Dividend Project

In November 2020, Andrew Yang and The Data Dividend Project submitted a brief to the California Federal Court arguing that California consumers do have a property interest in their own online data. You can download the brief itself here.

UPDATE on Feb. 18 Court Hearing:

The California Federal Court held a nearly 2 hour hearing on Thursday Feb. 18 in the Calhoun v. Google case. Judge Koh asked numerous questions to both sides. …

previously published at Property & Casualty 360

Courage contagion seems to be the most relevant phrase to use when reviewing the trend that we see from employees at complex organizations that have a history of diversity & inclusion (D&I) complaints. The usual scenario goes: one employee speaks out about the disregard for their life experience’s influence on their work performance, and other employees start to rethink how they’ve been valued. Over the past 20 years of corporate change management, we’ve seen this trend start to snowball into new types of internal corporate policy and financial risks.

It was well documented…