Cari Shane

Benjamin Fernandes’ goal for the fintech startup he launched in 2018, NALA, was to speed up money transfers within his native Tanzania.
It now operates in nearly a dozen African countries, providing African ex-pats working in the US and 20 European countries with a more affordable way to send money home. Last year alone, those outside Africa spent $8 billion in transfer fees. Africa remains the most expensive continent in which to send money.
In July, despite a depressed fintech market, NALA’...

Jessica got an alarming call from a friend this past April. Jessica, whose name has been changed to protect her and her friend’s privacy, hadn’t seen or talked to him in a few years. He was audibly drunk, says the 29-year-old who lives in New York City; he told her he was going to kill himself. She called 988 three different times in two hours, and each time a different person told her to hang up and call 911.
Sixty-year-old Scott says that during the wee hours of the night, when he is suicid...

For more than 35 years, unidentified anomalous phenomena have been part of Lisa Tsering’s life. While the more familiar term is UFO (unidentified flying object), UAP started making its way into our vernacular a few decades ago. First defined as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” about two years ago it was changed to “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” a shift that allowed for the inclusion of a larger swath of undefinable sightings, including those underwater.
“It sounds weird but I don’t care ...

For the past six ski seasons, I’ve dog sat for a retired couple I met during an 11-minute gondola ride at Keystone Resort in Colorado. I had stopped for a few runs while on my way to catch a flight home after my first official dog sit near Beaver Creek Resort using the travel app TrustedHouse sitters.com (THS). Always one to chat on a ski lift, I told the couple about my dog sitting ways. Turns out, the Rubins’ son was getting married in Mexico and they were looking for a dog sitter for their...

Food
But he’s most proud of how he runs his restuarant – with the mental health of his staff front and center
May 31, 2024
When Angel Barreto was 31 and working 16-hour days as an executive sous chef, he had a mental breakdown. At the time, he was at Wolfgang Puck’s now-shuttered DC restaurant, The Source. Each night, Barreto would arrive home from the restaurant at 2 am only to turn around and be back at 9:30 the following morning. He said his burnout was less about the hours and more “a res...

Janet Humphrey and Scott Dazey were on their way from Leavenworth, Washington, to their home in Bend, Oregon, when they decided that rather than arriving in the wee hours of the morning, the smart choice would be to stop for the night. With Dazey behind the wheel, Humphrey grabbed her phone and reserved a parking spot for their 24-foot RV at a winery 20 minutes away from where they were, in Washington’s Yakima Valley. Within minutes of pulling into Severino Cellars, Humphrey, 78, says the own...

The birth of a cloned black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, and her two new sisters, has sparked a new pilot program to preserve the tissues of hundreds of endangered species “just in case”
Elizabeth Ann just became a triplet—at three years old.
This black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes)—the first endangered species in the U.S. to ever be successfully cloned—was joined late last year by her genetically identical baby sisters Antonia and Noreen, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser...

In regulation heels and a skirt, O’Connell helped pave the way for the modern era of policing.

Last week in Washington, D.C., cybersecurity experts and executives from the worlds of energy, telecommunications and finance gathered in a workspace overlooking the White House to fight off a real-time cyberattack. Fingers flew over keyboards as experts rushed to stop an attack that threatened to crash multiple networks at the same time.

Their pulses were pounding, but never fear — this time the attack was just an exercise. In fact, the attack was being launched by security experts from thos...

Katie Aldworth grabs an empty wine bottle, puts it into a glass crusher, and then walks through her Maryland pottery studio with the end product: glass sand. After measuring out 275 grams, she pours the pulverized glass into a mold and bakes it in her kiln.
It sounds simple, but it’s taken her nearly three months to figure out how to turn used wine bottles into glass plates. When Aldworth pulls one from the kiln, a little light pops through. The color, she says, is “seaweed. It couldn’t be mo...

With skins on her Alpine Touring (AT) skis and about 35 pounds on her back, Ann Kampf of Silverthorne, Colorado, trekked away from the resorts in Summit County, Colorado. She was wearing a bespeckled tutu around her waist because, “why not! It’s fun and festive!” says Kampf.
The 73-year old was headed into the White River National Forest for a few nights in a hut with 16 others ranging in age from 55 to 78. The removable skins on her skis gripped the snow as she climbed up Bald Mountain on ma...

How a James Beard nomination changed everything
When Mawa McQueen found out in 2022 that she’d received a James Beard nomination for best chef, she thought the foundation had made a mistake. A culinary award had never entered her consciousness. Her entire life — from her childhood in Ivory Coast to her upbringing in a poor Parisian neighborhood to years waiting tables in ski resort towns such as Valloire in the Alps and Aspen, Colorado, where she now presides over her award-winning resta...

Cathy B.* doesn’t remember a time when she could hear well. The 58-year-old says by the time she was in her late forties, her hearing had become a big issue — at home, at work and, even with her friends. “My doctor didn’t recommend a test. But, everyone around me was pushing me to get my hearing tested because [it] was really turning into a problem, socially. Then, a friend died after a horrible battle with cancer a...

A day after Glendon Hartley returned to DC from an international bartending competition in Mexico in January 2020, he noticed his right arm wasn’t working correctly. The feeling was sudden. He was in the back seat of a friend’s car on the way home from a birthday celebration for his now wife, and when he went to grab his phone with his right hand, he couldn’t. While he thought it was “strange,” Hartley—co-owner of DC’s Service Bar and at the time yet-to-open, now Michelin-starred Causa/Amazon...

Food
We asked bookstore owners for their best new finds and familiar favorites
As you press forward with your holiday shopping for the foodies in your life, shoot some cookbooks to the top of your gift-buying list. We’ve asked a few of our favorite booksellers — both online and brick-and-mortar stores — to help us sift through this year’s new cookbooks penned and published by Black authors, and they came back with some new recommendations but told us not to forget some old gems. A gift to tas...