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Today is Equal Pay Day. It marks how far into the current year women have to work to earn what men made the previous year. According to U.S. Census data , women working full-time, year-round earn about 83% of what men earn. In some industries, that drops to nearly 74%. After sharing key facts about the wage gap, I begin to instruct the players to pay each male. In this clip, the room erupts before I can finish my directive. “What… each one!?” Shock, laughter, disbelief. It hits all at once....

Ten years ago, I created Factuality, a fact-based, immersive learning experience that helps people examine how data-driven policies and practices shape lived experiences and access to opportunity. I built it because I was watching traditional approaches miss the mark. Lectures were not shifting behavior. People disengaged. Many avoided the conversation altogether. Factuality's earliest champions were K-12 public and independent schools, smaller colleges and universities, and local nonprofits...

I spent sixteen hours in an emergency room in excruciating pain, dismissed repeatedly, and sent home without the care I needed after the attending doctor denied my pain and said a CT scan would not reveal anything. ______________________________ My journey began with a stomachache that became unbearable. I sought help at a local urgent care, where I was misdiagnosed and prescribed medication. A few days later, I received a call from the clinic telling me to stop taking the...