By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Last year, Olivia Samples had a dream of starting a conference around Black maternal health. Samples, a nonbinary Des Moines-based doula who serves Black and queer families, decided the conference would uplift the positive things happening Read more…
By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor When Amanda Jones found out she was pregnant in 2018 at age 25, she was surprised. She and her fiance, Aaron, had been dating for 1½ years and were both working as servers in Longview, Read more…
By Melissa Vine | Executive director, Beacon of Life Barriers for women and nonbinary folks can be systemic, such as earning 82 cents on the dollar for every man, or they can be individual acts of discrimination. The systems in Read more…
By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor A few weeks ago, I published takeaways from Iowa State University’s Women’s Week series. Last month on the other side of the state, the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa hosted a Read more…
By Emily Barske, Business Record editor When it comes to sexual assault prevention, colleges have often focused on telling people to be safe – in other words, how to not become a victim – but have less often focused on Read more…
By Emily Barske, Business Record editor Like many in the medical field, when asked to explain what she does, Delrae Hennessy first tells people what the acronym for her job title means. “SANE” stands for sexual assault nurse examiner, she’d Read more…
By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Discriminatory actions and comments are often clear and apparent. But it’s also important to address the seemingly smaller, daily instances of comments that showcase biases known as microaggressions. Kevin Nadal, a psychology professor at the Read more…
As told to Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Bopha Mom-Baccam has been a Re/Max real estate agent for two years alongside her husband, Sullivan. This interview, which has been formatted to be entirely in her own words, has been edited and Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Bridget Cravens-Neely always knew she wanted to own her own business—a dream she and her husband James brought to life in 2017. Bridget, an Illinois native who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, Read more…
By Emily Blobaum, Fearless editor Thank you to everyone who took our annual women and gender issues survey! We had just under 200 people provide feedback specifically on the Fearless initiative and newsletter. In the spirit of transparency, I want Read more…