Martha Groves Writing & More

I haven't spent much time on Facebook of late, but here's my most recent piece for the UCLA Anderson School, about MBAs who have ventured into the nonprofit world. Rebecca Trounson UCLA Anderson School of Management

The Arts of the MBA For three UCLA Anderson MBAs, the realm of arts management has served up challenges and no small measure of contentment. The collaborative style they learned to practice at Anderson has helped them overcome the inevitable trials of nonprofit work.

Here's my latest piece for UCLA Anderson School, about alumna Katy Parker Dickson, the brainy ball of energy who heads up Mattel's American Girl brand.

A STEM Path Led Her from Rocket City Space Camp to SVP of Mattel American Girl’s 2018 Girl of the Year is Luciana Vega, who aspires to be the first astronaut to go to Mars; Anderson alumna Katy Parker Dickson is president of Mattel’s American Girl subsidiary

My former Los Angeles Times colleague Rebecca Trounson hired me to write profiles about alumni of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she now works. While reporting this piece, I had a delightful interview with Mary MacVean, another former Times colleague, who is now a master gardener and executive director of GrowGood, founded by UCLA MBA Andrew Hunt and his pal Brad Pregerson, a deputy Los Angeles city attorney (whose parents I met many years ago). Mary's son and my daughter sat next to each other in fourth grade.

GrowGood Urban Farm Plants Seeds for Success at Bell Homeless Shelter But the 1.5-acre GrowGood urban farm across the street from the Salvation Army’s homeless shelter in Bell, California, demonstrates that healthful edibles can thrive in a once derelict patch hemmed in by businesses, railroad tracks and the Long Beach Freeway.

This piece for CALmatters was a mother bear to wrestle to the ground. Finding the anecdotes was like finding a needle in a ... well, you know. Finally, I discovered Ghuan Featherstone, who works for a small Inglewood contractor. Bizarrely, I later learned from a Google search that Ghuan is a "Compton cowboy" who has a role in a documentary called "Fire on the Hill," which my friend Elizabeth Greenway co-produced. Talk about a cosmic coincidence!

A ‘job killer’ family leave bill is now law for small business. Here’s how it’s working out | CALmatters The California Chamber of Commerce called the state's small business family leave protections a 'job killer.' Here's how Hannah-Beth Jackson's Senate Bill 63 is really working out. CalChamber called SB 63 a job killer but job protections for small business employees are working out.

The USC Rossier School of Education has a wonderful magazine for which I've written a few pieces. Here's one, about Assistant Professor Julie Posselt's efforts to make graduate physics programs more inclusive.

Can grad school admissions see life beyond the GRE? - USC Rossier School of Education Assistant Professor Julie Posselt researches equity and well-being in graduate school programs

Thanks to Shawn Hubler, an esteemed former Los Angeles Times colleague, I wrote a couple of pieces for CALmatters. Here's one:

Can California's new boardroom diversity law withstand courtroom backlash? Women say 'bring it on' Opponents of SB 826, a new California law mandating gender diversity in corporate boardrooms, warn that it will be challenged in court.