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InsightThe Right Person at the Right Time: A Conversation with 35 Mile Board Chair Sophia Mayott-Guerrero
Adam MillerSeptember 28, 2026Hotspot is a series of articles drawn from interviews with people across the digital equity and inclusion ecosystem. For this issue, 35 Mile Foundation Executive Director Adam Miller sat down with Sophia Mayott-Guerrero, the newly elected Board Chair of 35 Mile Foundation, to talk about what brought her to the organization, why the stakes in digital equity have never been higher, and her thoughts on where 35 Mile is headed next.
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InsightEvery Bob Needs a Kami — Filling the Digital Navigator Void
35 Mile TeamSeptember 17, 2026Kami Griffiths, founding Executive Director of digitalLIFT, has spent nearly two decades teaching people to safely access the internet and training the digital navigators who answer that call to service. She has a vision for what it would take to do it at scale. — and why we need to as a society.
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InsightThe Ballot and the Browser: Why Civic Participation Is Now a Digital Skill
35 Mile TeamSeptember 9, 2026The process of voting used to require being in particular places at particular times. Now nearly all of the process, except casting a ballot, happens online. Online voter registration is the norm across the country with the exception of a few states. This means the ability to participate civically has become inseparable from digital literacy. That's a powerful argument for digital equity organizations to include it in their work.
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News & UpdatesHow We Give — The 35 Mile Grant-Making Philosophy
35 Mile TeamAugust 26, 2026The need for digital equity work has never been greater. And the resources to support it have never been thinner. This reality has led us to take a hard look at the sector and determine if and how we need to adjust our giving strategy.
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InsightThe Misinformation Gap: Why AI Literacy Has to Be Part of Digital Inclusion Work
35 Mile TeamJuly 28, 2026AI isn't a future concern for the communities that struggle to access the internet. It's a present condition that impacts the people least equipped to navigate it — and the effects are compounding.
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InsightMeeting the Challenge: The Hopkins Digital Access Initiative, Then and Now
Cassie BairJune 29, 2026Hotspot is a series of articles drawn from interviews with people across the digital equity and inclusion ecosystem. For this issue, Cassie Bair sat down with Rebekah Crosby and Carolyn Leslie, co-founders of Connecting to Thrive, and Beth Kivett, Hopkins Activity Center Manager at City of Hopkins, to discuss how organizations came together quickly to address an urgent need in Hopkins, MN — and how the Hopkins Digital Access Initiative continues to make lives better for people in the community.
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