As Planned Parenthood’s Director Of Constituency Communications, Alencia Johnson spends her working life figuring out the best ways to engage efficiently, thoughtfully, and proactively with the organization’s most impacted communities. It is work that is continual, ever-evolving, and always challenging. And yet for Alencia, it is a role that represents a bigger metaphor about our call to listen…

As the founder of a holistic skincare line and the author of the wellness blog The Local Rose, Shiva Rose is the genuine embodiment of what she preaches: exuding radiance and creative energy, we’re inspired not only by the advice Shiva shares but the generous, curious spirit with which she does everything. After overcoming multiple serious autoimmune disorders and life events that forced her to…

On her website (and in her new book) “Salad for President,” Julia Sherman draws connections between food, art, and experience. On the surface it’s a recipe: Julia visits the homes of artists from all over the world and asks them to prepare a salad. But really, it’s a nuanced study on where taste and story combine; it’s considering the way an artist pairs ingredients based off memory, palette (…

  For Vancouver artist, business owner, and mother Janaki Larsen, the line between working, living, and creating is blurred, or perhaps nonexistent. Among other roles, she is owner of the Le Marche St. George cafe and market, as well as a new showroom, 7E7. Creatively, her focus is on her own ceramic practice, where she creates beautifully functional (while intentionally irregular and "imperfect…

Last year, as she was about to celebrate 10 years of owning a successful New York creative agency, RoAndCo founder Roanne Adams found herself in the middle of a personal crossroads and crisis — unmotivated, uninspired, and trapped in a cycle of unhappiness and physical sickness. She'd go on to upend her entire perspective and outlook on life, altering the focus of her work, deciding to move…