Women’s Work: Mindy Noland and Tina Ortiz

Women’s Work: Mindy Noland and Tina Ortiz

What happens when two strangers in different career fields interview each other about the work they do? Let’s find out. Mindy Noland is a Teacher of the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing. Tina Ortiz is a Medical Assistant. Mindy Interviews Tina Mindy Noland: What area of medicine do you work in? Tina Ortiz: I work for a Federally Qualified Health Center and perform Clinical duties as a Registered Medical Assistant. I primarily work in Pediatrics and on occasion, Family Practice. MN: What is a…

Read More Read More

Confessions of a Kraft Dinner Apostate

Confessions of a Kraft Dinner Apostate

by Karis Rogerson Kraft Dinner macaroni and cheese was the height of cuisine to my childish mind: the teeny tiny pasta pieces that are nearly impossible to stab with a fork, the powdered cheese that mixes perfectly with milk and butter to make a scrumptious sauce and the pure, unadulterated plasticity of it all. I was obsessed. I was the world’s greatest Kraft Dinner evangelist. I told everyone about my passion for the food, eyes alight and cheeks glowing with excitement….

Read More Read More

Women’s Work: Susan McLintock and Jeanette Palmer

Women’s Work: Susan McLintock and Jeanette Palmer

What happens when two strangers in different career fields interview each other about the work they do? Let’s find out. Susan McLintock is a former lab technician and current substitute teacher living in Swansea, Massachusetts. Jeanette Palmer is a Head of Client Services in Providence, Rhode Island. Jeanette Interviews Susan Jeanette Palmer: What were your childhood career dreams?   Susan McLintock: My first career dream as a child was to be a veterinarian. Then as I grew and learned that…

Read More Read More

What We Learned About You

What We Learned About You

The Refresh was started by two ladies studying data and media in graduate school. Beyond being excited to create a space for writing that is deep, diverse, personal and informative, we are also interested in how data is used to shape content development. In that sense, this space is an experiment, too. We’re listening to see how you respond and whether the stories we tell meet your interests. In fact, we started doing that even before there was content. Huh? Well, media companies…

Read More Read More

5 Tech Innovations to Help us Survive the Age of Trump

5 Tech Innovations to Help us Survive the Age of Trump

By Andrea Crowley-Hughes We expected to launch The Refresh during interesting times, but our second week was “interesting” in a way we never would have wanted. We had planned to run reaction pieces on the election of the Hillary Clinton as the United States’ first female president, but after November 8 found ourselves re-sharing Tana’s article on pre-election self care as it took on a whole new light. To say the shock of Donald Trump’s election has fully subsided would…

Read More Read More