I’m trying to remember how that even came about… I guess it was, in part, through my friendship with Sue Bird and Megan, her partner. But then also having to rapidly learn things like checking inventory and fulfillment, scaling what we were doing - in a space that I had some experience in, I had a t-shirt before this, but on a much smaller scale, so there was a lot of learning an entirely new space that I had very limited exposure to. So I think those were sort of general challenges, I’m trying to think back… a lot of it was just juggling, you know, when something is growing so quickly you want to seize that momentum, so it was trying to find that balance. I knew that I was clearly on to something, but it was definitely a long and pretty rigorous process of learning, mistakes, and just continuously challenging myself to be able to answer with clarity ‘what is this thing?’ I think, related to that, also, just figuring out what I was doing. (It’s sort of a classic nights and weekends entrepreneur story.) I think the hurdles in part were juggling what was a very rapidly growing side hustle while having a demanding full-time job, having babies and living life at the same time. It obviously turned into something different and much more than that original t-shirt, we are almost coming up on four years. We decided to make it into a fundraising campaign, it was only supposed to last a month, but we far exceeded our goal and decided that we wanted to keep it going, and we kept it going. I printed out some t-shirts and we used them for the women's march. So likewise I wanted to raise money for women’s organizations, part of that grew out of the women’s march and obviously the election which had such an intense focus on women.Ī lot of the headlines after the election were like “Are women going to fight back?”, “Are women going to step up?” or “When are women going to break the glass ceiling?” So for me, I always derived a lot of inspiration from the poem “Phenomenal woman” by Maya Angelou, and it was really just me doing something that felt good for me and my friends. For example, right after the Muslim ban, which I think was in January or February (and one of the first things Trump did), people were hosting fundraisers for the ACLU. I think like a lot of folks I thought I can’t sit on the sidelines. Coming out of the 2016 election, like a lot of people, I felt like I had the responsibility to do my part– and frankly I felt a little bit of regret that I didn’t do enough before the election. I think for me, I was raised in what I call a social justice family, or activist family, where I was taught from a very young age that I had both the power and responsibility to do good in the world, whatever that looked like and no matter how small. She is also the author of Ambitious Girl, which is now available everywhere. You can order a copy of the highly-anticipated children's book here.When I started it I didn’t really think about a campaign or an action campaign or anything like that. We know books can challenge assumptions about the way our children see the world, and change the way they see themselves.” Ultimately I decided to share this because I’ve heard from so many parents over the last week who are struggling to talk to their kids about what’s going on. “My daughters-all of our kids-deserve a better America free from anti-black racism & police violence. But candidly I‘m tired & angry,” she wrote. I'm proud of it & hope it can bring you some joy in what is otherwise a very dark time. In a Twitter thread, Meena explained that she wrote the book because of the current political and societal climate of the United States: Meena recently published a children’s book called Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea the titular characters are based on the real story of her mom, Maya, and of course, her VP aunt, Kamala Harris. Meena Harris is the author of Kamala and Maya's Big Idea. Maya Harris was only 17 years old when she had Meena. How old was Maya Harris when she had Meena?
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