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by Diane Tate

Communal, Multimodal Resistance

A ray of light amidst the jarring fascist takeover of the nation last year? Consistent, weekly protests at the 1000 Van Ness St Tesla in San Francisco (and at Teslas everywhere). While the horrors of DOGE are at least less in our face or the news at the moment, the horrors of the current anti-democratic regime persist.

This Saturday, my endorphins spiked yet again from the honking cars whizzing by. And I finally realized just why protesting alongside a busy street is so energizing: it invites literal passersby who, for whatever reason — time constraints, lack of awareness, etc. — to easily engage in the protest as well.

Multimedia communal protest

by Diane Tate

Terrifying, Exhilarating and Amazing

That’s how I described my first IGNITE talk experience on LinkedIn. I left out “tons of thought, work and practice” as IGNITE founder Brady Forrest made himself available tirelessly to help birth our individual talks (me while visiting my mom in 110-degree Tucson — thanks for giving me feedback as I practiced with you mom! <3).

p.s. how awesome is Club Fugazi

by Diane Tate

It me (and us).

Anyone who knows me IRL also knows I’m a strange outlier because I don’t just like to public speak. I love it.

So when the Arc.dev’s “Mastering Remote” folks asked me to join their podcast I was ALL IN. A podcast that focuses on remote work culture, Christine and I decided to talk about the employer branding work I’ve been doing. It was a great (and very fun) opportunity to synthesize so much of the work over the past two years. Full podcast and summary of that is here.

Employer Branding Is Fun (spot the bagel?)

And then earlier this month, my awesome manager Mardi invited me and my coworker Brianna to share how we collectively have worked to improve the employee experience at Mozilla. Like all people-related things, it’s well, never just “one” thing. And importantly, we again had fun. And we hope the 500 or so attendees did too. Check it out here.

Addendum: rather than create an entirely new brag post, i am just adding this super fun interview I did with Julia Levy for The Switchboard!