Author: Lisa A. Goldstein
Coleen Rowley’s email signature is a quote by Edward Abbey: “Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.” This couldn’t be more apt once you know …
Heidi Weber challenged a for-profit school in a groundbreaking case that’s been described as David vs Goliath. The former dean turned whistleblower has been through a nightmarish experience, but has …
Karen Silkwood significantly changed the lives of workers in the nuclear power industry, but lost her life in the process. As one of the first women whistleblowers, she’s legendary. Born …
Christina Pumphrey was just doing her job when others weren’t doing theirs. Because of her, a corrupt cop in Jackson County, Florida, is no longer arresting innocent people and is …
Green tongues, bleeding from every orifice, impotence, even deaths: These were some of the complaints South African miners working for an American company made in the mid-90s. When Dr. Marsha …
Her name is sadly ironic. Reality Winner, a 26-year-old former Air Force linguist, made the news when she leaked a report on Russian election hacking. Her prize? A sentence of …
Six years ago, Eryetha Mayberry’s three daughters suspected someone at her Oklahoma nursing home was stealing from her, so they installed hidden cameras in her room. The resulting video showed …
When it takes 45 minutes just to prep for a bath because you have to use bottled water, and bath time is only once a week because bottled water is …
The gigantic plumes of smoke from the collapse of the Twin Towers made Manhattan look post-apocalyptic. Ground Zero released fumes until mid-December. How could breathing in this dust be anything …
It was the memo heard ‘round the world, a shot at the heart of Silicon Valley. When Susan Fowler published a 3,000-word essay on her website in February 2017 about …
