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REMARKABLE RESILIENCE | Dear Matter #2

I would like to share about a female figure I met in my line of work. From the first day I entered the workforce, I felt welcomed by her. Her gracious and approachable disposition made it easy for me to connect with her. Throughout the one and a half years that I’ve known her, she’s stretched me […]

REMARKABLE RESILIENCE | Dear Matter #1

Resilience often stems from a place of brokenness, and this was where I found my friend at the age of 11. It was then that she experienced an event that stripped her of her family, was flown across the world, and placed in an unfamiliar land. I asked if she understood her classmates at the […]

REMARKABLE RESILIENCE | Project Aipan

Preetika Sah is a designer from the Indian Himalayas we collaborated with to create a collection inspired by the traditional folk art of her community. The Aipan tradition is slowly diminishing through the age of time, and in a community where art is so intrinsically interrelated with their culture, to lose one is to lose the other. Over the […]

REMARKABLE RESILIENCE | Grandma Chuang

My grandmother just celebrated her 100th birthday. The prime minister came to her house and gave her a brand new phone (somewhat of an odd tradition). She must have been smiling inside because in reality, she’s only eighty-something. When she was young, my grandmother left China with a fake birth certificate, and nothing but hope […]

REMARKABLE RESILIENCE | Hillson To

I know a girl whose life is a manifestation of the quote “Don’t dream your life, live your dream.” Though she is petite in stature and quiet in manner (probably because she never got enough sleep at night), whenever she hits the dance floor, she always takes the center stage. When I met Hillson, she was […]

REMARKABLE RESILIENCE | Project Thrive

With everything going on in the world today, it’s a pulsing reminder that there is still a lot of room for change and progress, especially for women. But celebration coexists with struggle and now, more than ever, we want to celebrate the remarkable resilience of women, individuals who find the strength and passion to go on despite […]