Emily Goligoski
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Emily Goligoski writes about San Francisco arts and culture after getting an early start in trends reporting publishing the Gollie’s Follies newsletter in grade school in the cultural hotbed of Toledo, Ohio. She covered theater and arts for the student-run publication NYou during journalism school at Northwestern University and worked as a health reporter for the daily newspaper Cape Times in South Africa. After working as an interactive producer for the advertising agency Venables Bell & Partners and as a digital strategist for Ogilvy PR, she is now part of online publishing company Federated Media’s strategic programs group. Goligoski conducts video interviews with female company founders for the technology and entrepreneurship organization Women 2.0 and writes as TheSanFranista.

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Advancing the Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Barcelona

Posted June 17, 2010 | 16:12:51 (EST)

A bright orange Tesla Roadster parked near a sprawling park that houses Spain's National Art Museum of Catalonia is a striking, if somewhat paradoxical, image. But the artistic, natural and carbon fiber-constructed beauty are all related in the eyes of the car company, one of the electric vehicle manufacturers in...

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To Catch a Dollar & Grameen America Bring Poverty Alternatives to Sundance

Posted January 25, 2010 | 10:30:00 (EST)

Finance conversations during the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival tend to center around distribution deals and the price of heeled boots, so discussions about economic motivators to end domestic poverty are particularly refreshing. The premiere of the documentary To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on...

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Virtual Exhibit Economica Spurs Discussion of Women's Global Earning Potential

Posted November 16, 2009 | 20:55:29 (EST)

I was listening to Slate's Money Talks podcast when I first visited the online exhibition Economica, and it struck me that I was listening to four male commentators share their opinions on economic recovery. No women economists or policymakers were mentioned in the nearly hour-long recording, and the observations...

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Business-Building Telenovela Launches for Female Immigrant and Refugee Entrepreneurs [VIDEO]

Posted October 16, 2009 | 17:20:03 (EST)

I'm more of a multimedia consumer than an educator, but upon seeing a new telenovela with business-launching lessons, I started thinking: Why use workbooks and pens when serialized video can be introduced to adult students to create more engagement and better take home value?

A similar line of thinking led...

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