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The Worker Agency Makes a Protest Hard to Ignore
The Oakland firm does not merely pitch stories. It builds objects, coalitions and moments that make abstract fights visible - then gives organizers the language to carry them forward.
MediaJustice wants a say in who owns your digital life
The Oakland nonprofit spent years fighting for fairer media and technology. Now it is connecting the people confronting data centers, surveillance, and corporate control - and asking why winning individual battles has not been enough.
Change Consulting puts a good cause to work
A worthy mission still needs someone to make the calls, shape the message and get the story out. This Oakland agency has built its business around that unfinished work.
EMC Communications knows who should do the talking
A business owner asking for higher wages. A banker stepping out of crisis mode. EMC Communications helps good causes find the people, evidence, and timing that make a story travel.
Freada Kapor Klein
Freada Kapor Klein, Ph.D. is a founding partner at Kapor Capital, a social-impact venture firm that has invested in 200+ startups founded by underrepresented entrepreneurs while outperforming 75% of peer VC firms by financial returns. Long before #MeToo, she co-founded the first U.S. organization dedicated to combating workplace sexual harassment (1976), earned a Ph.D. studying harassment in federal employment, and built diversity programs at Lotus Development Corporation. She co-founded SMASH (Summer Math and Science Honors Academy), the Level Playing Field Institute, Project Include, and the DAIR Institute, and co-authored 'Closing the Equity Gap' (HarperCollins, 2023). Former NAACP National Board member and Obama Foundation Tech Policy Council member, she has spent five decades dismantling the belief that fairness and financial return are mutually exclusive.