August 31, 2026 – Stuffed Adoptions

Rashad Robinson’s New Book Traces a Line From Riverhead to Big Tech

Rashad Robinson spent decades confronting technology companies, media executives and political leaders before he wrote a page about any of it. His new book, "From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter and Win," out July 28 from One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, begins instead with his childhood in Riverhead, New York, according to an account published by the Daily Californian.Robinson, described in that account as...

Michael Polk’s Cornell Engineering Roots Shaped Leadership

Long before he ran a multibillion-dollar company, Michael Polk was a teenager in southern Connecticut with a homemade weather station in his yard. The son of parents who had recently arrived in the United States, he grew up watching his family value independence and hard work above nearly everything else. Though he came from a household full of musical talent, his own interests pointed toward math and science rather than the arts.That curiosity...