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It was unique for brands, and still is, to be working with a really young team.

  It was unique for brands, and still is, to be working with a really young team. Creating a fun environment Wonderkind is a really special and unique environment . As an all-women team that's pretty close to the same age, there's a lot of making friends and motivating each other. When I was hiring my team, I was looking for people that understood the online platforms that we work on. I wanted employees who used those platforms everyday because I didn't want to teach someone how to use TikTok. I was looking for people who were up-to-date on the services we provide , and that happened to be millennials and Gen Z. I wanted to create a place where people wanted to be at and where they can learn more than just the job.

Their stories aren’t widely told, but these Black women and men helped shape history

  Their stories aren’t widely told, but these Black women and men helped shape history When Phelps turned her sights to radiochemistry – the study of radioactive substances – racial bias and sexism tried to get in her way, she said. While women make up half the US workforce, only 27% work in  science, technology, engineering and math, often dubbed STEM, US 2019 census data shows; of those, only 2% are Black women, according to 2015 National Science Foundation stats live . “For the first 18 years of my career, I was the only Black woman in my field. When I was in the Navy, I was the only Black girl in my division. Afterwards in my lab, I was the only Black woman in the whole facility – and initially they thought I was the janitor,” she told CNN, recalling requests to grab the trash.