by admin | May 17, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Denver Broncos have hired Kelly Kleine as the executive director of football operations and special adviser to general manager George Paton, the team announced Monday. Kleine, 30, is believed to be the highest-ranking female scouting executive ever with...
by admin | Apr 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
For years, I only knew how to watch a diaspora film sprawled out on someone’s couch. At family gatherings we tripped into the TV rooms, pulled these indie films out of their special boxes with their grainy printer-paper covers, and watched them with our feet dangling....
by admin | Apr 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Natalia Dorantes, who was hired by the Washington Football Team as the first Latina Chief of Staff in the NFL. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Steve Waithe, a track and field coach at Northeastern,...
by admin | Apr 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Natalia Dorantes virtually attended the fifth annual NFL Women’s Careers in Football Forum in February, she had to introduce herself to Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera. That introduction turned into a conversation, which then blossomed into a...
by admin | Apr 7, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Ashley Solis became a massage therapist to heal people’s minds and bodies, but after what she said happened to her in March 2020, she can no longer do what she loves without shaking. Her hands tremble when she places them on clients, forcing her to cut sessions short....
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Let’s get the stardust out of our eyes. In public, Deshaun Watson is a brilliant, blinding superstar: sensational talent, pristine reputation, charming persona, emerging athlete activist. Yet he now stands accused, among many alleged sins against massage therapists,...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sky Sports has reached a “multimillion” three-year agreement with the Football Association to secure the rights to broadcast English Women’s Super League matches starting next season in what has been proclaimed a “landmark rights deal” for women’s sports. Read...
by admin | Mar 18, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson was accused of sexual misconduct in a pair of civil lawsuits filed by two women over alleged incidents last year related to massage sessions. The initial lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Harris County, Tex.,...
by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
For someone who describes herself as a “pretty quiet person,” Cat Phillips has shown herself to be utterly unafraid of speaking out. A rarity in the sporting world, Phillips is a multi-sport athlete, who competes in both ultimate frisbee and Australian...
by admin | Mar 7, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
“Blondes with big breasts, and ‘pretty girls,’” is apparently Les Miles type. LSU released a report revealing the university had considered firing football coach Les Miles because of his behavior with the female student workers. Within hours of the report being...
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