How do you know when it’s time to make your next big career move? With International Women’s Day around the corner, we are excited to feature Avni Patel Thompson, Founder and CEO of Milo. Avni is building technology that directly supports the often overlooked emotional and logistical labor that falls on parents—especially women. Milo is an AI assistant designed to help families manage that invisible load more efficiently. In this episode, Avni shares her journey from studying chemistry to holding leadership roles at global brands like Adidas and Starbucks, to launching her own ventures. She discusses how she approaches career transitions, the importance of unpleasant experiences, and why she’s focused on making everyday life easier for parents. [01:26] Avni's University Days and Early Career [04:36] Non-Linear Career Paths [05:16] Pursuing Steep Learning Curves [11:51] Entrepreneurship and Safety Nets [15:22] Lived Experiences and Milo [19:55] Avni’s In Her Ellement Moment [20:03] Reflections Links: Avni Patel Thompson on LinkedIn Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn Ipsos report on the future of parenting About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…
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In Iran, the act of converting from Islam to any other religion is punishable by death. In America, one of the strongest historical rationales for immigrants seeking asylum has been the fear of religious persecution. Yet on February 9, when Artemis Ghasemzadeh, an Iranian Christian convert, crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, after an arduous trip that took her from Iran to Dubai to South Korea and finally Mexico, she said she was never asked about her reasons for seeking asylum. Instead, she said, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents put her in shackles, walked her onto a military plane, and flew her to Panama. They did the same to at least 10 other Iranian Christians, including three children. They all remain stuck in legal limbo in Panama to this day. Read more…
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are the two most important liberal journalists working in the legacy press today—Ezra at The New York Times , and Derek at The Atlantic . Although they insist they’ll never go into politics themselves, they are offering Democrats a path back to power. To get out of the political wilderness, they say the Democrats need a new vision—one that goes beyond resistance to Trump. A vision that can bring back the disaffected Democrats who stayed home or voted red for the first time this past November. While other progressives are doubling down on zombie ideas, afraid to confront a country that has moved decisively to the right, Ezra and Derek are willing to face reality. They see that blue states are functioning similarly to the DMV—and, as a result, losing people to states like Texas and Florida. In their new book, Abundance , they offer a blueprint for winning them back—to cities like San Francisco and New York, but also to the Democratic Party. The thesis is simple: To have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of what we need. While conservatives and libertarians might say, Yes, exactly, let the free market do its thing , Ezra and Derek insist that the government can play a crucial role—if liberals will let it. They want to rein in the laws, regulations, and bureaucratic thinking that have made it nearly impossible to do anything in this country. How do we build a government that’s less like the DMV and more like the Apple Store? How can it actually deliver for Americans and solve our most pressing problems—in housing, energy, transportation, and healthcare? And, how do we reverse government’s long march into total incompetence? Ezra and Derek have a lot of ideas on how we can get there. Today on Honestly , we hear them. This was an excellent conversation and I’m eager for you to watch or listen. You can click the video above to watch, click below to listen, or scroll down for an edited transcript of our conversation. Read more…
Syria has just witnessed its deadliest bloodshed since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad last December. In just four days, between March 6 and 10, more than 800 people were killed in the coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). But who killed them, and why? As graphic videos of the atrocities flooded social media, so did misinformation. Tucker Carlson falsely claimed Christians had been slaughtered—an assertion denied by Syrian Christian leaders themselves. But while Christians weren’t massacred, another religious minority was—the Alawites. Through our partnership with the Center for Peace Communications (CPC), The Free Press obtained exclusive footage and spoke to survivors, eyewitnesses, and analysts to piece together what actually happened on Syria’s northeast coast. It all began March 6, when remaining Assad loyalists launched coordinated attacks against the new government’s security forces in the coastal region, killing dozens. In response, tens of thousands of government forces and armed groups rushed to the coast to quash the insurgency, according to Syrian Network for Human Rights founder Fadel Abdulghany . What followed was a mass slaughter. Abdulghany told The Free Press that of the 803 deaths his organization recorded, the overwhelming majority were civilians and disarmed combatants, including women and children. Many of them were executed on the spot. And most of these atrocities, he said, were perpetrated by the very forces that had arrived to put down the insurgency. “The question is: Who were those who headed to the coast?” Abdulghany said. To answer that, it’s worth looking at who lives there. While ethnically mixed, Syria’s coastal provinces are predominantly Alawite—the same sect that the Assad family is part of. Alawites had been deeply embedded in Assad’s regime, perpetrating some of the worst atrocities during Syria’s 14-year civil war, CPC’s Michael Nahum explained. After Assad’s fall, the new government, headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa and attempting to bridge sectarian divides, sought to avoid outright vengeance. “This has generated an enormous reservoir of sectarian ill feeling that has been looking for an outlet ever since the fall of the regime on December 8,” Nahum said. To put it bluntly, many Syrians were not moved by al-Sharaa’s desire for reconciliation. They wanted revenge. The March 6 clashes were the match that lit the fuse. The scale of violence was staggering. Alawite villages were decimated. Entire families were wiped out. “So far, I’ve lost 23 relatives,” one man said, choking back tears. “We don’t know what to say. We all might be killed.” Another Alawite told us his father and uncle were among dozens executed in a village called Al-Shalfatiyah in the Latakia countryside. “An unknown group entered their house and opened fire on them without mercy,” he said. “No mercy for an elderly man and a sick man.” The perpetrators of these killings came from multiple factions. The government has acknowledged the presence of “unruly elements” within its forces—fighters who defied strict orders not to attack civilians. There were also “foreign factions and individuals who picked up arms,” SNHR’s Abdulghany said. But some of the worst atrocities, according to human rights monitors and eyewitness testimonies, were perpetrated by the Syrian National Army (SNA), a coalition of Sunni militias notorious for human rights abuses . The government is now scrambling to contain the fallout. President al-Sharaa has formed an independent investigative committee and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. “We affirm that we will hold accountable, firmly and without leniency, anyone who is involved in the bloodshed of civilians,” he said in a March 11 address , his first since the massacre. Arrests have already begun , with security forces detaining fighters who filmed themselves committing atrocities. But the underlying tensions remain. “The long-term drivers of that fighting are still there,” CPC’s Michael Nahum warned. “These Assad remnant militias, which appear to be backed by both Iran and Hezbollah, seem to have had as their main goal to inspire a sectarian overreaction, which in fact they did.” Iran has denied involvement, but Syria’s Defense Ministry claims Hezbollah supplied weapons to Assad loyalists. Stoking sectarian violence has long been part of the Iranian playbook, Nahum added: “It creates a vacuum that they can fill.” “May God make it stop. Let us reach a point where innocents no longer have to die,” the man who lost 23 relatives implored. “We ask the rational people in Syria in general to stand together, and to act as brothers. Please deliver this message. Please, please, please, I beg you.” To watch our video of this report, click above.…
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