Sooo...when I go on my little soapbox about this thing called a "tech pipeline"? This pic is what I mean. Almost 100 little Black/brown girls (in Oakland) doing robotics the Sat before Christmas.

Memories of past #GraceHopper conferences. This was 2016 and a room filled to the brim with Black women in tech. 💜

Still sitting with the news that this year's conference is cancelled...

Stepped outside last week and back into the tech waters for the first time in a LONG time for @oaklandtechweek 😂
Had a great time at the few events I made it to, but I gotta say...@E40 closing out the week was quintessentially #TheTown
No notes. 😂

Apparently. I'm fairly equally distributed across all and absent in two. The descriptions do vary a bit, however.

My first journal publication,
“A Kennedy Half Dollar” appears in the latest issue of @PitheadChapel. This essay is part of a longer arc of writing toward my forthcoming memoir and I’m deeply appreciative and honored to be part of this issue. Grateful.🖤🙏🏾

Our February issue is live!

Cover art: Kyle Mercer

Words: @dallonwrites , Alex Miller, @AFB16, Christopher Negri, @6Gems , Liam Carnahan, @emmabheath & Evan Murphy, David McArthur, Patricia Caspers, Anne Duncan, and Spencer Eckart!

pitheadchapel.com

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95. thezebra.org/2026/01/18/dr-…

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here

McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying….Everything that is in these files—it could bring an entire house down. And if it has to, it has to. If it brings down Democrats, bring down Republicans, bring them down. Bring down princes, world leaders, Hollywood people, bring them down. But what it feels like right now is that there's a giant cabal of people that do not have to listen to the law

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.

It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.

ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.

Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.

I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

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If you can look at your life proudly and say,
"I Built This."

That's really the most satisfying thing in the world.

Ok my time over here is done. I just popped in to see WTH was up with what I just saw. Byeeeee 👋🏾😆😭

New Blossom Note Sunday: "New Moon Meditation: Finding Sacred Rest in Stillness" 🌙
Sometimes the roots grow strongest when everything appears still.
Feat. "River" by @IbeyiOfficial & ancestral water teachings ✨podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roo…

🌿 Happy Father’s Day.
Honoring the fathers, chosen fathers, and anyone holding memory and care today.

🎧 4 mins of calm to celebrate you in today's Blossom Note 🎵

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roo…
#FathersDay #BlossomNotes #TheInnerGardenPodcast

🌿 It's here!!

This isn’t a podcast about hustle. This is a podcast about healing.
Introducing Inner Garden Podcast — a new series where women of color reclaim joy, legacy, and purpose through the land.
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
#Healing
#gardening

🌿 It's here!!

This isn’t a podcast about hustle. This is a podcast about healing.
Introducing Inner Garden Podcast — a new series where women of color reclaim joy, legacy, and purpose through the land.
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
#Healing
#gardening

🌿 Happy Father’s Day.
Honoring the fathers, chosen fathers, and anyone holding memory and care today.

🎧 4 mins of calm to celebrate you in today's Blossom Note 🎵

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roo…
#FathersDay #BlossomNotes #TheInnerGardenPodcast

Link to teaser on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/0WpDjB…

Link to the show teaser! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roo…

Hello Garden Friends!

I'm relaunching my Substack as: Roots & Resilience + announcing my garden podcast 👇🏾
🎙️ Inner Garden: Stories of Healing, Land & Legacy — a podcast about how WoC are healing through soil, story & ancestral wisdom.
Teaser is live!

Sending some weekend peace from my garden to all the mothers and those who mother.

To those raising children, nurturing communities, tending to dreams not yet fully grown—this is for you.

Happy Mother's Day! 🌷