How Mentorship Can Be Life-Changing for People Living With HIV
"By having HIV and living with it for so long, I [am] able to support, encourage, and inspire somebody else."
On the Shoulders of Giants
The possibilities and pitfalls of mentorship
An Artist Whose Mentors Are Scientists
Dianna Cohen, a visual artist and environmentalist, aims to raise awareness about pollution in the world's oceans.
The Odyssey’s Millennia-Old Model of Mentorship
According to the classicist Gregory Nagy, Homer’s epic provides an early example of enlightened guidance that’s still relevant thousands of years later.
From Girl Scout to Girl Scouts' CEO
Anna Maria Chávez, the former leader of an organization she loved as a child, on the mentors who shaped her career
The Friendship That Helped Create 'Vagina Dispatches'
The filmmaker Mae Ryan and the data journalist Mona Chalabi say that their willingness to push and support each other was the key to creating their Emmy-nominated documentary.
The Quiet Mentor
The late Nashville Scene editor Jim Ridley made everyone around him better, and took little credit for himself.
What Studying Conflict Resolution Teaches About Personal Relationships
Donna Hicks, a scholar at Harvard, says the lessons from her research on violence apply to interactions with family, friends, and mentees.
The Mascot All the Other Mascots Look Up To
For almost 30 years, Dan Meers has built a professional community founded on radical kindness as Kansas City’s KC Wolf.
Warby Parker's Co-Founder on Starting a Company From Scratch
Dave Gilboa says it’s important to find a mentor “who can tell you when you are being delusional.”
How Peer Mentorship Can Change Police Departments’ Cultures
The criminologist Geoffrey Alpert says that it’s not just the substance of constructive criticism that matters—it’s also whom that criticism comes from.