The #Metoo and #Timesup movements, along with the unprecedented number of women running for office in 2018 got me thinking about the real world impact this visibility has had on women’s overall equality.

As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria stormed our coasts last year, memories of Superstorm Sandy flooded back. Even today, in 2018, our infrastructure can’t handle Sandy 1.0, let alone 6.0.

As I was rushed to NYU Medical Center on May 13th 2014, the worst news was not that I had an incurable grapefruit-sized cancer in my head, but that Oxford had canceled my insurance. That happened again in 2016.

What should have been a 15-minute trip on the A from Downtown Brooklyn to Manhattan became a complete unknown. After standing on the platform with a colleague for what seemed an eternity, the supposed 10-minute train arrival shown on the screen suddenly disappeared.

While a junior at Harvard, I led the Environmental Action Committee’s first Green Cup competition aimed at measuring and incentivizing environmental stewardship on campus.