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March 2015

Kate Lee
6 min readApr 3, 2015

Entertainment

Shonda Rhimes’s delivered a speech at the Human Rights Campaign gala.

Mad Men co-producer Josh Weltman produced a series on how to draw the show’s characters.

Tavis Smiley published an excerpt from his new book about Maya Angelou.

Desperate Housewives actress Marcia Cross spoke up in support of Stand Up to Cancer.

YouTube star Paige McKenzie announced a contest for her new book, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl.

Screenwriter Julie Bush opined about women in Hollywood.

Stephanie Wittels Wachs published a touching eulogy for her brother, Parks and Recreation writer/producer Harris Wittels.

Bestselling author and chef Michael Ruhlman wrote about good cooking.

Academia

Stanford economics professor and economist J. Bradford DeLong started voraciously blogging, while Stanford law professor Larry Lessig launched v.2 of his Mayday.US SuperPAC.

New publications

We partnered with the Gates Foundation to launch Bright, a publication on innovation in education.

We executed a partnership with the 92nd St. Y for their festival, 7 Days of Genius.

The World Economic Forum launched their new class of social entrepreneurs.

Medium publications

Matter continued to publish innovative features, including a series debating whether we should #bansports, Mary H.K. Choi’s ecstasy vacation, and an exhaustive survey of Kanye West’s oeuvre. They also broke news on the flawed Mars One mission and annotated an essay by Michael Paterniti.

Cuepoint published first-person pieces by Alice In Chains’s William Duvall and Boreta of the Glitch Mob.

The Cauldron published first-person pieces by LA Laker Julius Randle, NCAA leading scorer Tyler Harvey, Indiana Colt Coby Fleener, Golden State Warrior Stephen Curry, and Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders.

The Message welcomed new writers Tim Carmody, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Jessamyn West.

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Kate Lee
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Written by Kate Lee

currently @stripe, ex-@WeWork, @medium, ICM Partners

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