Jane Francisco, the chief of Hearst Magazine’s Lifestyle Group, talks with Marcia about the emergence of ‘hunger-to-health’ advocacy by Millennial moms.
Author: Marcia Stepanek
Algorithms of Fear
Marcia’s Stanford Social Innovation Review article about how some media companies are deploying new algorithms to accentuate people’s differences and stoke their fears in a bid to increase site traffic
Floyd Protest
A photo taken by Marcia while attending a rally in 2020 protesting police violence against Black citizens and the killing of George Floyd
A New Kind of Activism
A rare example of cross-sector collaboration to end hunger makes its debut in Boston.
Visualizing Change
Susan MacLaury, Executive Director of Shine Global, shares in this podcast what she’s learned in the course of her Oscar and Emmy Award-winning work producing documentary films for social change.
Event Highlights
A short event highlights reel summarizes a recent Boston event Marcia created and produced on collaboration for social change.
Voicing Race
Two top journalists parse the media’s expanding coverage of race in America and the election of Donald Trump in a segment of “Voicing Race,” a new podcast executive-produced by Marcia for Living Cities, a nonprofit funded by the nation’s largest philanthropic foundations to build a more civil society.
Democracy on Trial
The intro to a pilot Marcia produced for a PBS series she is creating that tracks the evolution of American democracy through the 150-year history of Brooklyn’s federal court.
Grand Gestures, Big Bets
Mike Bloomberg steps up his challenge to the philanthropy establishment by expanding his “big bets” giving on social change—and is influencing others to do the same.
Power, Remixed
Henry Timms—the founder of #givingtuesday, author of “New Power” and Lincoln Center’s new CEO—explores how our digital hyper-connectivity is upsetting the balance of power across society.