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These metaphors can help employees navigate criticisms of DEI jargon and reframe DEI as a tool that builds everyone up rather than tearing some down. As a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and communications practitioner, I often use metaphors to reframe complex issues. Employing metaphors can create space for empathy, encourage creative problem-solving, and center asset-framing communication.

In South Park Hill, a former college campus is gradually being transformed — and what’s taking shape doesn’t look like a typical redevelopment project in Denver. In one building on the Mosaic Community Campus on a recent sunny Friday afternoon, DIRT Coffee Bar had just closed after a day of selling cappuccinos and training baristas with intellectual disabilities or neurological conditions.

Starting Wednesday, the electric cooperative United Power will officially cut the cord from Tri-State Generation and Transmission, the multi-state utility that has kept the electrons flowing to the Brighton-based company for about 70 years. The departure follows years of conflicts between the cooperative and Tri-State over the power supplier’s rates, what critics considered an over-reliance on coal and restrictions on how much power members like United Power could generate on their own. United Power, Tri-State’s largest member, sued Tri-State over the addition of new members it believed were being used to stack the deck for Tri-State leaders.

Enlarge / Of all the aquatic spiders, the diving bell spider is the only one known to survive almost entirely underwater, using bubbles of air it brings down from the surface. (credit: Oxford Scientific via Getty) Shrubbery, toolsheds, basements—these are places one might expect to find spiders. But what about the beach?

When David Risher took over as CEO of Lyft about a year ago, the company was losing market share and struggling with morale. Its stock price was approaching an all-time low, down nearly 90% from its IPO high of 2019. One of Risher’s first moves was to cut staff by 26%, affecting hundreds of employees. Risher, a one time Lyft board member and former Amazon executive, is the first non-founder to lead Lyft.