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Stuck In The Middle
Employee morale isn’t great these days. Job satisfaction is low. Burnout rates are high. Workers are feeling overwhelmed and undervalued. But if you look closely, it’s not the lowest-ranking employees reporting the greatest levels of stress and anxie
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From The Editor.
Every year, there seems to be another study that comes out showing that young Americans would rather be YouTube stars than anything else, including astronauts. But, as the internet meme goes, why not both? Mark Rober, a mechanical engineer and a form
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Reimagining Everyday Play
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS In the mid-1990s, toy company Spin Master introduced a line of planes called Air Hogs. The toys were simple to use and safe, powered by compressed air rather than the tiny combustion engines found on conventional (as we
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Veterans Are A Valuable Resource In The Battle For Technology Talent
Business owners who have tapped former service members to fill technology jobs often share a common opinion: Veterans are valuable additions because they bring with them the unique and important skills required to be successful in the workplace of to
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Sandwich Generation
LIZ LEMON ► Habitat: New York media and entertainment conglomerate ► Characteristics: Cajoles recalcitrant team; strokes C-suite egos; maintains zero work-life balance PETE CAMPBELL ► Habitat: Mid-century advertising agency ► Characteristics: Steals
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Mellow Yellow
Inspired by the 1968 landmark album and movie, Theory11’s “Yellow Submarine” playing cards add a psychedelic flair to classic games. The standard-size cards, which are enlarged here, feature illustrations from the Beatles’ wacky world. Hit PLAY on th
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Iconic Icons
Can you match each game piece with its classic board game? (Answers at right.) Andrea Chronopoulos (Iconic Icons, Computer Game Night Decider). Iconic Icons answers: 1. C; 2. D; 3. B; 4. A ■
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My Daily Media Diet
Cathy Hackl, chief metaverse officer and cofounder, Journey @DONALLENIII He’s a creator who combines AR, AI, and VFX to design mind-bending videos. He’s building a metaverse that is full of inspiration and fun. @DILMERVALECILLOS He teaches folks how
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Game-Day Playlist
NAS I live in New York City during the offseason. [It gives me a] different mindset and hustle. Channeling that song gives me life. FUTURE FT. DRAKE The title speaks for itself. A great trap collaboration. JAY-Z This was the Cavaliers’ intro track wh
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The Pharmacy, Reimagined
Most Innovative Companies While the old perception of a pharmacist may be a Norman Rockwell-like apothecary hunched behind a counter filling pill bottles, Walgreens believes its team of health professionals have the potential to do much more. The pha
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Empowering What’s Next In Creativity
Most Innovative Companies Every year, data storage company Western Digital holds an innovation bazaar, bringing employees together to brainstorm ideas for the next big thing in data infrastructure. Last year, the event had a twist: Employees particip
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R. My Operating System.
What’s your best habit, and what’s your worst one? My best is taking care of my health, working out, and doing my best to maintain a healthy lifestyle. My worst is letting myself succumb to too much caffeine. What is your biggest indulgence? Oat milk
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The Best Board Games
Jay Dragon, CEO, Possum Creek Games JAMES D’AMATO This is a great look into the breadth and depth of the indie tabletop RPG scene. The games are quick to learn. AVERY ALDER The tabletop roleplaying game about going on a road trip uses mixtapes to sha
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One Hundred Best Workplaces For Innovators
IN THIS ERA OF DISTRIBUTED WORKFORCES AND MASS ATTRITION (the so-called Great Resignation), our fourth annual Best Workplaces for Innovators list highlights more than 100 companies that energize employees by rewarding creativity wherever it arises. T
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Helping Caregivers Rejoin The Workforce
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS Caregivers are a talented and selfless segment of the workforce. Many such individuals—a good number of them professionals—found themselves having to put their careers on hold as they dealt with the challenges of provid
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Innovation That’s More Than Skin Deep
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS The great promise of metaverse technology is a world in which virtual reality affects how we learn and interact with each other. One example, in use right now, is how global skincare company Dermalogica is utilizing thi
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Bettering The Business Of Builders Everywhere
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS Building a data center is a complex endeavor—any failure can have huge consequences on what are typically multimillion-dollar projects. So, with miles of electrical cable snaking through the jobsite, how can contractors
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New Ideas That Help Sick Kids In Need
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, TN, has long been admired for providing free medical care to children battling cancer and other life-threatening diseases. To help find new ways to fund its mission, th
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A Big Assist For Small Businesses
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS Small business owners spent much of the last two years trying to move forward as the ground shifted beneath their feet. From extended closures and supply chain issues to labor shortages and changing health regulations,
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Innovation Team Of The Year
SEATAC, WA FLYWAYS AI BENEFITS • 2.8 MINUTES SAVED PER ROUTE • 10.9 MILLION POUNDS OF FUEL SAVED SINCE IMPLEMENTATION • 17,300 TONS OF CARBON EMISSIONS ELIMINATED SINCE IMPLEMENTATION Seeking to streamline the information that flight dispatchers have
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Innovative Leader Of The Year
• TITLE: GLOBAL CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, MRM • EDUCATION: BS, ASTON BUSINESS SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND • FIRST JOB: MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, KPMG • PREVIOUS JOB: CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, WPP The first woman to serve as global chief technology offic
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Supply Chain Success Story
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS Supply chains—the increasingly vast and complex networks that link companies with their suppliers—have been a hot mess since the pandemic started. But not so for American Eagle Outfitters. While other companies were tie
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Methodology
Between January 13 and March 25, 2022, more than 900 companies applied to Best Workplaces for Innovators, detailing a particular example of internal innovation and answering questions about investment, company-wide programs and processes, and workpla
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Games That Fuel Innovation
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS Employees at Alex Lee, Inc.—the multibillion-dollar parent company to Merchants Distributors, Lowes Foods, W. Lee Flowers, and Souto Foods—who show potential for internal advancement are placed in five-person teams to d
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Closing The Health Equity Gap
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS Interacting with healthcare providers while dealing with a medical issue can be an anxiety-raising experience: on top of concerns about your own wellbeing, there are financial worries and the frustrations of navigating
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The Judges
• SAIKAT CHAUDHURI FACULTY DIRECTOR, M.E.T. PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY • PAUL DAUGHERTY GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF TECHNOLOGY AND CTO, ACCENTURE • STEPHANIE MEHTA CEO, MANSUETO VENTURES • KRISTIN REILLY CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER, WONDER • J
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Other Winners by Category
• U.S. ALEX LEE, HICKORY, NC • INTERNATIONAL ITAÚ UNIBANCO, SÃO PAULO • ENTERPRISE DEMANDBASE, SAN FRANCISCO • CONSUMER PRODUCTS ELECTRONIC ARTS, REDWOOD CITY, CA • SMALL COMPANIES BBVA AI FACTORY SL, MADRID • MIDSIZE COMPANIES MAVEN CLINIC, NEW YORK
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Engineering A Turnaround
BEST WORKPLACES FOR INNOVATORS In 2009, Singapore-based DBS Bank was, well, struggling. “People joked that DBS stood for ‘damn bloody slow,’” says Bidyut Dumra, executive director and group head of innovation at DBS. “We were regrettably notorious fo
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Margrethe Vestager
FOR FINALLY PUTTING LIMITS ON BIG TECH WHILE MANY BUSINESSES FLOUNDERED during the pandemic, Big Tech thrived. Even as markets have entered bear market territory, large technology companies—including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Alph
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The Most Creative People In Business 2022
THESE 56 INDIVIDUALS ARE MOVING THEIR INDUSTRIES FORWARD WITH INGENUITY AND PURPOSE. WHAT HAVE THEY ACCOMPLISHED? READ ON. ■
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Jessica Lee Gagné
FOR EXPOSING THE MYTH OF WORK LIFE BALANCE THE TELEVISION SERIES SEVERANCE, WHICH DEBUTED on Apple TV Plus in February to glowing reviews, came out at an interesting time: Millions of homebound workers were considering a return to office life and con
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Diarrha N Diaye-mbaye
FOR TAKING A NATURAL APPROACH TO INCLUSIVE BEAUTY WITH THE “NO-MAKEUP MAKEUP” look trending, cosmetic brands have been pushing out products that promise to enhance users’ natural beauty. But Ami Colé founder Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye found that BIPOC cus
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Asad Ayaz
FOR MARKETING LIKE A JEDI WHEN ASAD AYAZ started at Disney in 2005, the company had made exactly zero Marvel movies or Star Wars streaming series. Now Ayaz, who runs marketing for all original productions, has a heroic task ahead. He has to manage an
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Crystal Díaz
FOR LEADING PUERTO RICO’S FIGHT TO ACHIEVE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY CRYSTAL DÍAZ’S GROCERY-delivery app PRoduce is reviving Puerto Rico’s agricultural sector and reclaiming its foodways. Although the island has a tropical climate where crops can grow year-ro
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Timoni West
FOR TURNING REAL LOCATIONS INTO METAVERSES THE WORD METAVERSE SEEMS to be on everybody’s lips, but Timoni West is actually living there, demonstrating how immersive computing environments can transform our real ones. West’s job at Unity, the $10 bill
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Toby Olié
FOR PULLING OFF AN OTHERWORLDLY PUPPETRY CHALLENGE JAPANESE ANIMAtion legend Hayao Miyazaki is famously protective of his creations, so it was no small thing when his production company agreed to let theater director John Caird mount a live stage ver
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Natalie Candrian
FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE, STYLISHLY WHEN U.S. SPRINTER ALLYSON Felix took to the track at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she wore light blue running spikes made by her own nascent footwear brand, Saysh—and ended up breaking the record for the most U.S
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Donnie Oliphant
FOR LAPPING THE COMPETITION DELL XPS LAPTOPS ARE WIDELY REGARDED as the Windows world’s best portable computers. “We design XPS for tomorrow,” says Donnie Oliphant, who has spent 34 years at Dell and is senior director for the XPS line. Some of his t
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Heba Kadry
FOR LENDING AN EMPATHETIC EAR WHILE MASTERING Mdou Moctar’s acclaimed 2021 album, Afrique Victime, audio engineer Heba Kadry had a top priority: to ensure that the sound would translate on tinny cellphone speakers because that’s how most people in Mo
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Kingsley Gbadegesin
FOR BUILDING A FASHION BRAND WHERE QUEERNESS LEADS “IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO, one of the first questions I ask is, ‘What’s the intention of this?’” says Kingsley Gbadegesin of his queer-focused fashion brand K.ngsley. The Brooklyn-based, Nigerian Ame
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Molly White
FOR PUNCTURING THE WEB3 HYPE SOFTWARE ENGINEER Molly White created the website Web3 Is Going Just Great in December 2021. Last year, the idea of “Web3”—a revolutionary new internet built on blockchain technology, which purported to be democratic and
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Mike Lavitola
FOR UPGRADING THE CONVENIENCE STORE PICTURE A CONVENIENCE STORE. Now, instead of a dingy chain with fluorescent lighting, imagine suspended greenery, black stools near polished wood tables, and a curated array of high-quality products with a local co
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Mark Rober
YouTube creator; owner, CrunchLabs FOR ENGINEERING A GOOD TIME PICTURE THE COOLEST, MOST RIDICULOUSLY awesome room you can imagine. Maybe it’s got a golf simulator and a billiards table, or radiant-heat floors, or polychromatic India Mahdavi furnitur
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Norma Edith García–gonzalez
FOR TURNING L.A. COUNTY’S PARKS INTO TOOLS FOR PANDEMIC RESPONSE AND RACIAL EQUITY WHEN NORMA EDITH GARCÍA-Gonzalez took the helm of the Los Angeles County Parks department during the first summer of the pandemic, the parks were jammed. Soon, in the
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Arooj Aftab
FOR STRIKING A CHORD WITH ANCIENT POETRY SINGING SORROWFUL SONGS mostly in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, 37-year-old singer and composer Arooj Aftab isn’t your typical Grammy winner. Her boundary-defying compositions pay homage to a tradit
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Gina Asoudegan
FOR GIVING HOT DOGS A HIGHER PURPOSE “THE HOT DOG IS sort of an ambassador for the company,” says Gina Asoudegan, who for 16 years has helped New Jersey–based Applegate fulfill its mission of “changing the meat we eat.” While they aren’t Applegate’s
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Evelyn Wolff
FOR PLACING SENIOR CITIZENS AT THE CENTER OF THEIR URBAN COMMUNITIES A NEW DANIEL LIBESKIND-designed apartment building is set to open in New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in 2023. The angular, 11-story building will have 190 units, indoor g
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Michael R. Jackson
FOR SENDING THEATERGOERS FOR A ONE-OF-A-KIND LOOP IN JUNE, WHEN MICHAEL R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop won best musical at the Tonys, Broadway fans were hardly surprised. For months, the musical had been generating buzz (and $6 million in box office) on
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Tom Burt
FOR USING THE LEGAL SYSTEM TO THWART THE BIGGEST CYBERATTACKS TOM BURT LEADS A division of Microsoft that protects customers from cyberattacks. That means securing their data not just from thieves and fraudsters, but hackers backed by powerful govern
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Ifeoma Ozoma
FOR PROTECTING WORKERS WHO SPEAK OUT AFTER IFEOMA OZOMA WENT public with her allegations of racial discrimination against Pinterest in 2020, she became a prominent advocate for reforming the tech industry by empowering employees to speak out without
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Pavel Vrzheshch
FOR REINFORCING BRAVERY AS UKRAINE’S BRAND ON FEBRUARY 24, WORK AT KYIV-BASED ad agency Banda stopped. Russia had invaded Ukraine. After helping coworkers and his own family members move abroad, cofounder and chief creative officer Pavel Vrzheshch an
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Whitney Pegden
FOR MEETING CUSTOMERS WHERE THEY LIVE WHEN WHITNEY Pegden set out to persuade Walmart customers to trust the company to deliver groceries directly to their fridges, freezers, and pantries, she imagined that technology would be the answer. She and her
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Sebastian Klasterer Toft And David Samad
FOR GIVING THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY A NEEDED JOLT AS A CARGO SHIP WAITS OUTSIDE A PORT, IT can burn as much as 12 metric tons of fuel a day—emitting more than 38 tons of CO2, plus air pollution. Late last year, as the supply chain crisis pushed port tra
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Shannon Washington
FOR STEERING BRANDS THROUGH DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS SHANNON WASHINGTON HAS become a go-to creative mind for corporate brands that want to weave no-nonsense, inclusive messaging into their campaigns. Washington, promoted last year to co-lead creative
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Gustav Hasselskog
FOR MAKING ELECTRIC BOATS FLY BOATS AREN’T EASY TO ELECTRIFY. LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES OFfer 100 times less energy density than gasoline, making it hard for boats to overcome drag from the water, not to mention the extra weight of battery cells themselv
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Liz Reid
FOR SHORTENING THE SEARCH FROM THE START, GOOGLE HAS FEATURED an “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, which transports a searcher directly to the first result. That spirit of providing the best information with the least amount of effort lives on. Liz Reid, a
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Josh Fabian
FOR CONNECTING GAMERS WITH PROS IN A WAY THAT EVERYONE WINS WHEN FORMER PROgamer Josh Fabian set out to create Metafy, a service that links average video-game players with professionals for live coaching, he asked himself: Who should his customers be
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John John Florence
FOR GETTING CUSTOMERS STOKED WITH A COMMUNITY LED OUTDOORS BRAND SURFING STAR JOHN JOHN Florence raised many a sun-bleached eyebrow in 2020 when he walked away from an eight-year, $30 million contract with surf giant Hurley with two years left on the
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Frank Simonetti And Veronica Zelle
FOR KNOWING WHERE GEN Z LIVES SOON AFTER JENA Rose, a 21-year-old singer from Texas, debuted her first single, “Checkmate,” last summer, her largely teen fans launched a campaign to get her more airtime. They held nationwide Zoom parties during which
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Christian Smalls
FOR SHIFTING THE POWER AT AMAZON CHRISTIAN SMALLS WAS JUST trying to do the right thing when, in March 2020, he led a walkout at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse in a protest against COVID safety conditions. Two years later, he had created the first-
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Maxine Bédat
FOR (REALLY) MOVING THE NEEDLE MAXINE BÉDAT RUMMAGED through a mountainous, burning landfill site outside of Accra, Ghana, as it belched toxic fumes. It was 2019, and the site was filled with foreign-label apparel and accessories—illustrating the bil
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Casey Neistat
FOR POINTING THE CAMERA AT SOCIAL MEDIA STARDOM THERE HAVE BEEN several documentaries about YouTube, but only one from a filmmaker who was once one of the global video platform’s brightest stars. “My ambition was to tell that story from the inside,”
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Jonas Kron
FOR INSERTING A “W” IN ESG AS STARBUCKS EMployees ramped up efforts to unionize, they had powerful allies. More than six dozen investors—representing some $3.4 trillion in assets—signed an open letter in March urging the company to adopt a neutral st
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Jodi Kantor And Megan Twohey
FOR TEACHING STUDENT JOURNALISTS HOW TO GET TO THE TRUTH IN 2017, NEW YORK TIMES journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published the results of their 18-month investigation into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s long-covered-up history of sexual hara
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Anai Green
FOR DEVISING A SUN POWERED SOLUTION RISING TEMPERATURES, LIGHT pollution, and carbon emissions are major problems for cities. Anai Green is tackling all three with LumiWeave, a smart, solarcell-embedded fabric that can be hung like a canopy in public
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Alison Heller And Dean Shold
FOR PREVENTING FENTANYL OVERDOSES WE WERE INSPIRED BY the fishbowl condom initiative during the AIDS crisis,” says Alison Heller, who founded the drug-test-strip distribution nonprofit FentCheck with Dean Shold in 2019. The two met at Burning Man and
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Kyla Scanlon
FOR BEING THE COOLEST ECON NERD ON THE INTERNET KYLA SCANLON HAS BEEN GLUED to her desk for the past hour, barely noticing the late-afternoon downpour out her window. Tik-Tok’s algorithm rewards her for posting at 7 p.m. ET, which is why she’s toggli
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Josiah Johnson
FOR DOMINATING ON NBA TWITTER OF ALL THE ONLINE COMMUNIties where experts and enthusiasts interact, none may be more fearsome to break into than NBA Twitter. Fans have to go into the paint with some of the game’s biggest stars, who hang out and dish
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Reynold Verret
FOR MINTING MORE BLACK DOCTORS XAVIER UNIVERSITY, the only historically Black, Catholic university, has sent more African American students and students of color on to earn medical degrees and PhDs in the health sciences than any other higher educati
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Sharon Prince
FOR CLEANING UP CONSTRUCTION PROFIT MARGINS in construction rely heavily on the low-cost production of materials such as lumber, concrete, and steel, which can be procured from locations like China and Russia that have troubling human rights records.
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Rob Van Varick
FOR REDESIGNING CANES, WALKERS, AND MORE FOR CVS IN FEBRUARY, MIchael Graves Architecture & Design (MGA&D) launched a groundbreaking line of affordable, beautiful, and highly usable accessibility products for CVS, available online and in more than 6,
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Luis Antonio
FOR CREATING A VIDEO GAME THAT TREATS CHARACTERS LIKE REAL PEOPLE YOU AND YOUR WIFE ARE ENjoying dessert when there’s a knock at the door. It’s the police. The officer enters, zip-ties your wife’s hands, and interrogates her. When you try to stop him
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Gretchen Peters
FOR BLOWING THE LID OFF ORGANIZED CRIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA IT BEGAN WITH IVORY. GRETCHEN Peters, a former investigative journalist, was frustrated by Facebook’s unwillingness to combat illegal wildlife trading, which was happening in plain sight across
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Jay Edelson
FOR REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE AGAINST BIG TECH MAY 9, 2022, WAS A hell of a day for digital privacy champions, thanks in large part to attorney Jay Edelson. That was the day that Facebook began paying out a record $650 million settlement stemming from
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Ellis Carr
FOR DEVELOPING REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS THE STORY IS A COMMON ONE: A city, or some part of it, languishes in blight and poverty until one day, investors see opportunity in the cheap real estate. They redevelop homes and even entire streets, and suddenl
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Sophia Dominguez
FOR FOSTERING THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING FOR SNAP, AUGmented reality isn’t a theoretical future trend. It’s a thriving part of the Snapchat experience, enjoyed by 250 million of its users daily. More than 250,000 developers—working everywhere from conce
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Maria Elena Bottazzi And Peter Hotez
FOR OPEN SOURCING A COVID 19 VACCINE FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD AS AN INOCULATION, THERE’S NOTHING REVOLUTIONary about Corbevax, the groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccine developed by Maria Elena Bottazzi and Peter Hotez, infectious disease experts at Baylo
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Amir Nizar Zuabi
FOR HUMANIZING THE REFUGEE CRISIS WITH A 12-FOOT-TALL PUPPET THE STORY WE WANTED TO TELL WAS OF A YOUNG refugee—her challenges, her experiences on this long odyssey,” says Palestinian playwright and director Amir Nizar Zuabi, artistic director of The
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Saket Soni
FOR EMPOWERING WORKERS ON THE FRONT LINES OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN A WORLD HAMMERED BY CLImate change, natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and fires are becoming a grim way of life, especially for the labor force that treks from one reg
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Bilal Baic
FOR TURNING THE IDEA OF VISIBILITY INSIDE OUT THE TENSION BETWEEN WANTing to be seen and unseen—to be needed and unbothered—is at the heart of the critically acclaimed, Peabody-winning CBC series Sort Of, which returns for a second season this fall (
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Fly Vs Fly
DON’T CALL IT A FLYING CAR. THE VEHICLE, WHICH LOOKS LIKE A SPACE-AGE TADPOLE THAT’S SPROUTED SPIKE-TIPPED WINGS, CAN TAKE OFF AND LAND VERTICALLY, MEANING THAT IT DOESN’T REQUIRE A RUNWAY, AND ONCE IT’S ALOFT, IT FLIES LIKE A SMALL AIRPLANE. MAKE TH
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Flying Backward
Creator Glenn Curtiss won a patent and the title of “father of the flying car,” but his craft could only manage multiple, short bunny hops a few feet off the ground. Alas, the Autoplane never achieved full sustained flight. Aviation engineer Waldo Wa
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Are You a Robot?
X I AM NOT A ROBOT ■

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