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Cisco Supports Military Veterans and Spouses Through Thick and Thin
When Tina Swallow, director of Department of Defense services sales at Cisco, joined Cisco 12 years ago, she didn’t know where she was going to end up. At the time, she was interviewing for the role from Yokosuka, Japan, where her family was stationed and where her husband was still serving in the U…
How Housing First Provides Hope for the Future
Every person who has experienced homelessness has a story. Before Joanne Richards was homeless, she raised three children. She describes herself at that time as the typical PTA soccer mom; she lived in Castro Valley, a Bay Area suburb, and drove a Chevy Suburban. “When I was raising my kids, I chose…
A Lifelong Journey of Education and Science
This post is written by guest blogger Maha Achour. Achour is the founder and CEO of Metawave. She has a PhD in theoretical physics from MIT. Achour is a global thought leader on the millimeter wave and the future of autonomous driving and wireless communications. To hear more from Achour please joi…
The Founder, CEO and CTO of Niramai on Increasing Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Dr. Geetha Manjunath shares her personal experience perusing a STEM education and why she founded Niramai. Niramai developed a new cancer screening software that uses machine intelligence with thermography images to enable a low cost, easy to use, portable solution to detect cancer at a much earlier…
38 degrees – Cold Hands (and Feet), but Warm Heart
This post was written by Rekha Grennan, Director Corporate Affairs — Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy at Cisco I awoke in the middle of the night, exhausted and frozen. The cold rising up through the concrete had permeated every inch of my stiff, sore body. I was fully encapsula…
Seeing the Source: How Blockchain Can Improve Mineral Traceability
This post was written by Maria Gorsuch-Kennedy Senior Manager, Supply Chain Social and Environmental Responsibility at Cisco. At Cisco, we believe that making the world a better place with our technology begins with how that technology is made. Like many companies in the electronics industry, our p…
How the AbilITy Cisco Networking Academy is Turning Disability into Opportunity
What comes to mind when you hear the word disability? Many things I would imagine. It’s a word with many connotations and history behind it. But does poverty come to mind? For many of us it doesn’t. The truth is, adults with disabilities are more than twice as likely to live in poverty and nearly 70…