Who We Are
Lex Schroeder
I’m an editor and organizer who is passionate about gender justice and the future of work. I spend most of my time working with individuals and organizations to create articles, books, and new communications strategies. The rest of my time, I aim to bring a gender justice into systems thinking and systems thinking into gender justice work.
Whichever frame I’m using, I help teams work with difference and design more resilient, just work processes. The central theme of my work is work itself: what work is valued, what value means, how to work more effectively, who gets paid, and how to work together better in our teams and communities while working for justice.
I learned a tremendous amount working as an editor at two very different organizations (each dedicated to helping people think differently about work), The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) and The Berkana Institute. Feminists At Work is a natural evolution for me as I’ve been fascinated with all things work since reading and loving Studs Terkel’s Working in high school. Some of my teachers along the way have been Deborah Frieze, co-author of Walk Out Walk On; the writer/editor Tom Ehrenfeld and the industrial anthropologist John Shook at LEI; Nancy Fritsche Eagan, Tuesday Ryan-Hart, Kelly McGowan, and Chris Corrigan in the Art of Hosting community of practice; and Gloria Feldt, women’s rights activist and Co-Founder of Take The Lead. I’m privileged to have had attended Smith College where I earned a B.A. in Government. Read more about my work at lexschroeder.com.
CV Harquail
I’m an author, scholar, toolmaker, and activist working at the intersection of feminism, entrepreneurship, digital media/business, organizational change, and social justice. I’ve understood myself as an advocate for feminism since I was in 7th grade (seriously!). Engaging in feminist advocacy in all its forms has been a critical element in my research, teaching, parenting, and envisioning.
My recent book, Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society, (Routledge, 2020) is one of the first books to explain how feminism and business need each other and why we should be pursuing feminism as a business and social strategy. My ongoing series of Feminist Business Practice Workshops offers entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, leaders, and teachers a chance to experience how to build feminist values and actions directly into everyday work, through tools like the Feminist Business Model Canvas(tm) as well as through strategic practices like world-building, feminist mentoring, systems of organizational accountability, anti-oppression, and more.
I’m currently creating new practices for feminist entrepreneurs and those who teach, coach, and support feminist startups and small businesses. I’m working with the Fifth Wave Feminist Accelerator as well as with the Feminist Enterprise Commons to develop multi-level, multi-stakeholder communities of feminist business practice.
I’m sharing this work on my personal blog, cvharquail.com as well as in my newsletter on Feminism & Business. Please connect with me there, as well as here.