Acknowledgements

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my family and friends for their unwavering support and understanding throughout the completion of this project. They truly carried me through thick and thin.

I am deeply grateful to my colleague and friend, Diane Ducat, for her invaluable support. Her understanding ear, perceptive insights, and ongoing encouragement kept me motivated and inspired to see this resource through to completion.

This work would not have been possible without the fellowship leave I was granted from LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. I sincerely appreciated the fellowship leave, along with the continued support I received from the Humanities Department and our chairperson, Vera Albrecht. I could not have completed this work without that support.

I would also like to thank Kathryn Monro for her creativity, professionalism, and patience while editing all of the included interview videos.

Finally, I would like to thank the individuals who generously shared their time, expertise, and experiences as interviewees. They are Dana Bonomo, Lava Studio; Sierra Brown, Long Island City Business Partnership; Riley Eike, Ability Partners Foundation; Hande Erkan, New York Women in Communications; Bruce Goldfeder, NFL Media; Katie Honan,THE CITY; Anika Hossain, Intrepid Museum; Jenna Johnson, Paramount +; Brittany Keegan, Prismo Marketing, Powered by Seedspark; Patrick LaVilla, Rabobank; Marija Paunovic-Erdeljan, Horizon Media; LaurieAnne Perez, Crain Communications; Eliana Suxo, Spark Foundry; DiDi Turley, The Metropolitan Opera; Victoria (Tori) Wischerth, The Monroe Agency; and Lilian Yagual, New York City Department of Transportation. They truly were major contributors to this project and I thank them for their contributions.

This project is dedicated to my husband, Norman Loehr.