TCH DSN ECO AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown The Side Hustle I Didn’t Realize I Already Had For years, I kept hearing people talk about side hustles as if everyone secretly had a business idea waiting to happen. Everywhere online…
MDA AI SOC SCI DSN AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Data Gap: What I Saw, What I Tried, and Why I Expanded Beyond It When I first joined the early childhood data project, I believed deeply in the mission. Early childhood is foundational — the research is…
DSN SOC MDA AI SCI AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Building My Own Data Dashboard: Why I Stopped Waiting for Permission and Started Future Path Data For years, I believed that if I worked hard, collaborated well, and brought my full skill set to the table, the work would speak for…
SCI HUM MDA AI DSN AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Data Shouldn’t Require a Translator: Designing a Dashboard for Real People After the conflict, after the code incident, after the realization that I was never going to be heard in that space, I found myself sitting…
TCH SOC AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Social Skills vs. Experience: The Workplace Bug That Keeps Crashing My System When your code runs smoother than your small talk
HUM SCI AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Nerdy Girls: The Science of Being Brilliant and Still Underrated When competence meets charisma, guess who gets the raise
ECO DSN AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown I Built a Bunch of Websites… and Then Realized They Could Help Pay for My Kid’s College? Several years ago, I was building websites for work and then I moved on, I started building websites for a very practical reason: I needed…
SOC LIF SCI TCH AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Bullying, Coding, and Raising a Math‑Bound Daughter in 2026 I used to say I was raising “all boys who love computers.” Life has a way of editing our stories, though — sometimes gently, sometimes with…
HUM TCH LIF SPT AI AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown What I Learned When I Suddenly Had a Girl Or: How Facebook Turned Me Into a Soccer Mom, Cultural Liaison, and Emergency Tampon Instructor in 48 Hours
SOC AI AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown The Woman in the Room: What It Feels Like to Be Heard Last in Tech I didn’t enter tech expecting applause. I didn’t expect shortcuts or special treatment. I expected to work hard, solve problems, and be…
AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown The Woman in the Room: What It Feels Like to Be Heard Last in Tech There’s a moment every woman in tech knows too well. You’re in a meeting, you’ve done the prep work, you’ve anticipated the questions, and…
HUM AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Is Writing on Medium Worth It? Let’s get this out of the way: I used to be very employable.
MDA TCH AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown When Being Right Makes You the Problem: A Story About Data, Ego, and Integrity There’s a moment in some projects when you realize the actual problem has nothing to do with the work itself. For me, that realization came…
HUM ECO AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Retiring From IT, Teaching for a Season, and Learning to Start Again Starting a new chapter in life
DSN AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown Building the Table: How Educators Can Reclaim Data, Voice, and Power A Personal Story About What It Means to Build as a Woman in Tech
ECO LIF AT Athena · Exceptions Thrown I Accidentally Became My Family’s Tax Department Every year, tax season shows up like it’s just here to “ask a few quick questions,” and somehow leaves me questioning my life choices.
