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My Day At The Polls

On Tuesday, June 7th, 2016, I went to my polling place at Higher Learning Academy Charter School to surrender my mail-in ballot and get a…

8 min readJun 10, 2016

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My Day At The Polls

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As an update, when a fellow female emerging manager posted a tweet where Sacca bragged about…

Looking for his "apology" post to share with the group of female GPs where his tweets were linked, I found out he also blocked me here on…

1 min readJun 6, 2021

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Starting a Fund with VC Lab: The Process

(or “What I’m Doing from Home During Covid-19 Scare”)

4 min readMar 16, 2020

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Picture of Mariah Lichtenstern by Bryan Walker Ting for the Aspen Tech Policy Hub

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Action in the Aftermath of Police Shootings

Right now my heart goes out to every hurting person. I’m heart-broken for the innocent and pre-judged victims of police brutality and for…

13 min readJul 9, 2016

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#DebugDiversity: What We Can Learn From Tay, Microsoft’s Racist AI Chat Bot

“Diversity” has become the keyword for addressing the residual impacts of racism. People get deeply offended by the “r” word — particularly…

3 min readMar 24, 2016

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#DebugDiversity: What We Can Learn From Tay, Microsoft’s Racist AI Chat Bot

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Abandoning The False Pretense of Humility

View on LinkedIn

3 min readFeb 17, 2016

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Abandoning The False Pretense of Humility

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Cultural Impact: Star Wars, The Force Awakens

I grew up with Star Wars, loving it as a child. My brother and I had all the action figures. I even supported it through the whole brouhaha…

3 min readDec 21, 2015

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Opening the Door to an Inclusive Hollywood

View on Thunderclap | View on LinkedIn | View on CINESHARES Blog

3 min readDec 13, 2015

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Opening the Door to an Inclusive Hollywood

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Creating Top Down Inclusion

Read on LinkedIn here

5 min readNov 9, 2015

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Creating Top Down Inclusion

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4 Tweets: Chris Sacca’s Etiquette Lesson

*This post was originally journaled — unpublished — 07/ 2015

12 min readSep 24, 2015

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4 Tweets: Chris Sacca’s Etiquette Lesson

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Mariah Lichtenstern | Startup Investor & Advisor | Aspen Tech Policy Hub Fellow | Founder @DiverseCityV & @CINESHARES | @Founding SV Grad & SacTown MD

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