Kyla Windley

By Kyla Windley & Edith Pan This article is part of the PIT Policy Team’s broader series on Racial Justice and Diversity in the Tech Ecosystem. Find our introduction to the series here. I tiptoed into the kitchen for a snack, thinking “Who takes a Zoom call in the kitchen?” My parents and I were all adjusting to life in quarantine; my parents were adjusting to having a daughter back at home who needs to be fed at least twenty times a day.

The latest “Planning for our next academic year” message by Provost Persis Drell and vice provosts Stacey Bent, Susie Brubaker-Cole and Sarah Church outlined many possibilities for what fall quarter could look like. Constraints mentioned in the email included reducing the overall density of students on campus as well as considering community members’ international status, socioeconomic background, learning differences and disability needs. Here I want to propose another possibility for the fall.

Hollywood Lens Z By Kyla Windley on May 22, 2019 in OUR WORLD, TV + Web We are proud to publish Hollywood Lens Z, a series of student essays written in partial fulfillment of Dr. Kathleen Tarr’s first-year course taught in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, “That’s Entertainment! The Rhetoric of Hollywood’s Inequities.” PERVASIVE STEREOTYPES OF BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA If you were to ask me, a young Black woman, to paint a picture of what Black people are like purely...