Chapter 6

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NEW YORK: COMMUNITY AND CAREERS

In September 2012, I gave birth to a healthy set of twins. Just over six weeks later I managed to shower, put on a clean set of clothes and two matching shoes, and take the subway to midtown Manhattan for my Corporate Idealist family reunion.

The gathering is officially known as the annual conference put on by BSR, formerly Business for Social Responsibility, the twenty-year-old nonprofit that works with its global network of more than two hundred fifty companies and other organizations on a wide range of sustainability issues. I began following BSR’s work when I started at BP, and joined them part-time ...

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