Fast Company • 7th January 2019

This pretax benefits startup is giving hourly workers a raise

Most of the baristas employed by the Brooklyn Roasting Company now take home $40 to $60 more a month. Not by working more hours or getting a raise, but by keeping more of the money they earn. The coffee-shop chain uses a service called Alice, which lets employers offer pretax spending benefits without any setup costs and enrolls their employees via text message.

Fast Company • 5th January 2018

These Poverty-Fighting Startups Are Slaying Silicon Valley’s Sacred Cows

If you want to tackle society’s most intractable problems, start by ignoring some of the tech industry’s most cherished mantras.

Fast Company • 24th November 2014

What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans

The brief was simple: build a tech product for low-income American households. Except it wasn’t simple at all.

Medium • 23rd January 2018

The future must be feminine

We don’t just need more women in tech; we need to value the feminine.

Forbes • 17th March 2017

Startups, Status and Service Professionals

What happens when a bunch of MBAs and developers decide to “monetize” the work of an overwhelmingly female, often foreign-born, lowly paid population of house cleaners?

Fast Company • 26th March 2015

How Sleep Became A Social Justice Issue

Health researchers are underscoring the connection between sleep, work, and poverty–and the immense value of sleeping in.

VentureBeat • 17th March 2017

What’s cooler than a million dollars? Changing a million lives

Henry Ford once said that a business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Impact investing takes that idea to a new level.

VentureBeat • 17th March 2017

Cory Doctorow: Tech companies exploit the way we undervalue privacy

Author and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow explained why people undervalue their privacy and how data-driven companies exploit this.

Forbes • 17th March 2017

Why Marc Andreessen Knows Nothing About Low-Income America and Neither Do You

The tech business has long ignored people on low incomes. Most software developers (not to mention venture capitalists), who tend to be very well-paid, simply know nothing about them.

VentureBeat • 17th March 2017

How charity:water became tech’s favorite non-profit

“I had a model girlfriend and a BMW. I wore a Rolex. But I was really miserable,” says Scott Harrison, founder of charity:water.

Co.Exist • 11th August 2015

Welcome To PeaceTech, The Movement To Use Technology To End Violent Conflict And Extremism

If we give PeaceTech a chance, can it work?

Fast Company • 14th October 2013

Data-Driven Lending Could Help African Farmers Feed The World

One company is creating a network of farmers to report farming data, allowing banks to lend them money with less risk.