Susan Lee, born and raised in New York City, has been a Knicks fan since high school. The greatest Knicks rivalry during that time was against the Pacers. Susan recalls Spike Lee trash talking to Reggie Miller, which made basketball quite entertaining. Though, she has not been following the Knicks...

New York, New York: Occupy Wall Street has received international attention for its movement against social and economic inequality. In countries like Cambodia, economic inequities make women and children vulnerable to exploitation and modern day slavery. According to Siddharth Kara, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and advisor...

New York City is a place where wealth and poverty collide. With a population of over 8 million distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles, it is the home of both the affluent and the extreme poor. According to the Coalition for the Homeless, in New York...

We are living in a day and age where society is becoming even more desensitized to human suffering and the deprivations that plague our world: there are 27 million slaves today, more than 800 million people still do not have the safe...

An assistant U.S. attorney, a medical school dean, the president of the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), the executive director of the National Building Museum and the Reverend Marcia Dyson are just a handful of notable Washingtonians reading in this official Washington, DC production of A Memory, A Monologue, A...

I recently visited the country of Ghana and followed in President Barak Obama's footsteps to visit the Cape Coast Castle. The Cape Coast Castle is one of the many castles and forts the Europeans built along the West Coast of Africa. These fortresses were used as trading stations for gold,...

As I was walking home one day in Manhattan, I passed by a woman digging through trash with her two children. They were collecting recyclables for money. It reminded me of my two month stay in Cairo where I witnessed a young girl digging...

Making gobs of money is just not enough nowadays. Zappos is an amazingly successful online seller of shoes and clothing which was founded in 1999. Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos obviously did something right when he changed priorities and decided to put employees before profit. In his book Delivering...

Fendi, Versace, Channel, Prada, Gucci: these are among the popular brand names that consumers desire. However, in the next few years, there will be a shift in consumption as more and more people make socially responsible purchases. According to a Cap Gemini report...

Peter Drucker defined an entrepreneur as one who "always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur, but after spending a summer in Cambodia and witnessing the poverty and vulnerabilities of women and children in remote villages, I...