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Beyond the Blue Badge

Sep 30, 2020

In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, host Rich Kaplan talks with JoAnne Kennedy. JoAnne was one of a handful of female engineers at Microsoft in the early days. When she left the company, she became a senior director of product development at MSNBC.com and then vice president of technology for the NBC...


Sep 16, 2020

In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, host Eddie Pate talks with Rodney Hines about his amazing career at Microsoft and Starbucks before taking a “coffee break” to start his own business, Metier Brewery. Metier is one of the few black-owned breweries in the nation. Eddie and Rodney discuss how inclusion is a...


Sep 2, 2020

In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, host Lora Poepping talks with Shannon Huffman Polson about her amazing journey that took, well… a lot of grit. She grew up in Alaska, became the youngest woman to climb Denali, became the first female attack helicopter pilot in the army, did a three-plus year tour...