Hi, all. It’s been about a month since my last newsletter. I went on a long vacation (with a COVID chaser!), and since then I’ve been doing some thinking, particularly about the work I want to do, for whom, and from where.

TL;DR I’m retiring the name Practical Equity and Inclusion LLC, and focusing on working with individuals on their ethics, their careers, and what comes after.

For those of you who somehow don’t track my corporate affiliations, a recap: I soft-launched Practical at the end of 2023 with some paid office hours for folks doing equity work in tech. I really liked that. Early in 2024, I expanded into solo consulting. My first client ended up being over 90% of my billable time, and so for the last half of the year, I mothballed Practical to become their chief technology officer. We shipped a product in November, but the founders couldn’t find funding for it. I had ethical issues with what they wanted to build next, so I left at the end of the year. My main project so far in 2025 has been a chapter I wrote on burnout for a book on ethics in accessibility.

As you are likely aware, the United States had an election last November. One of the results of that has been that the name of my company, the subject of my master’s degree (inclusive design), and two of my previous job titles (namely: director, product equity; head of inclusive design) would, if published in a paper sponsored by the federal government, cause it to be flagged for potential removal. Of course, that’s the tip of the iceberg: I know government employees who’ve been fired or sidelined; academic colleagues who’ve been stripped of millions in funding; corporate colleagues who’ve gone to ground.