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The Nordstrom engineer who opens tech's doors to women, nonbinary developers
Cynthia Tee says the tech industry needs more gender diversity — starting from the top.
Manola Secaira
Manola Secaira is formerly a reporter for Crosscut, where she covered Native communities, the changing region and environmental justice. Before Crosscut, she interned at a variety of local pu
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Can Beacon Hill win the fight for quieter skies and a healthier neighborhood?
Sick of roaring airplane traffic and other neighborhood noise, a group of citizen scientists are gathering data in hopes someone will listen.
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Abigail Echo-Hawk on the art and science of 'decolonizing data'
The chief research officer of the Seattle Indian Health Board is creating programs and databases that are not based on Western concepts to better serve indigenous communities.
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Saving Seattle's last 'exceptional' trees means getting to know them
With The Last 6,000 project, 'tree librarians' are hoping to document and save Seattle's vulnerable canopy.
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A UW engineer explains how facial recognition tech erases trans people
After stints in law school and at Wikipedia, Ada Lovelace fellow Os Keyes is challenging tech companies to rethink the gender binary hardwired into their code.