

Within Magazine
The source for
design leaders
Within Magazine exists to do three things: challenge the status quo of leadership in design and technology, share practical wisdom for creating environments where all people thrive, and amplify stories of more diverse leaders.
More than a magazine, Within is a community that is driving design towards a more diverse and inclusive future. We are self-identifying women who have come together to share, learn, and reinvent. Real change may be born of us, but it will take more than us.


Feature
Leading at the speed of sound
“I noticed people who started on the same wavelength would get to ideas quicker.” In this feature on Google’s Ivy Ross, we explore how she is bringing her passion for the healing arts to the corporate world—inspiring creativity, and creating conditions for people to thrive.

FEATURE
Beyond the binary: Maybe Darwin had it wrong
Gender sets expectations in the workplace and beyond. Joan Roughgarden spent her distinguished and controversial career calling for scientists to rethink gender and sexuality in nature. As humans embark on this journey, what might we learn from her research and perspective?

Personal essay
A simple question set me free
“The answers were always there, but overshadowed by the noise of everyday life.“ Stacy La reflects on the unexpected path towards knowing herself, and not knowing what’s next.

PRACTICAL WISDOM
Small acts of inclusion
In the designer’s guide to meetings where all voices are heard, Julie Zhuo shares how she realized, “one cannot simultaneously believe that diversity matters and that speaking up doesn't.”



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What’s inside?
Features
Surviving on color and curves
The not-so-frivolous value of a woman’s touch
By Ingrid Fetell Lee
The other side of design thinking
By Liz Jackson
Beyond the binary: Maybe Darwin had it wrong
By Andy Wright
Leading at the speed of sound
Google’s Ivy Ross brings healing arts to the corporate world
By Danielle Centoni
Design school dispatch
What the design industry can learn from design schools
By Rachel Berger
PERSONAL ESSAYS
A simple question set me free
By Stacy La
I am enough
By Sally Carson
Painting to heal
By Kelsey Janda
Playing the long game
By Rhiannon Bell
FICTION
Bear Country
By Kiley Reid
IN CONVERSATION
Mysterious forces
In conversation with Kristy Tillman, Slack's Director of Global Workplace Design team
By Anna Hartley
The messy reality of a redesign
Behind the screen with Katie DIll of Airbnb and Lyft
How to they/them
In conversation with filmmaker Stuart Getty
By Bailey Richardson
The future of money
In conversation with Connie Yang of Coinbase
By Sadia Latifi
PRACTICAL WISDOM
Dear coach
By Mia Blume
So long, monoculture
5 tips for mentoring designers of color
By Melanie Araujo
Sorry, not sorry
Experiments in leadership through language
By Melody Quintana
Remotely closer to gender equality
How to build on the success or remote work
By Sophie Tahran
Small acts of inclusion
The designer’s guide to meetings where all voices are heard
By Julie Zhuo
Mistakes I have made
By Evany Thomas



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