Break the Bias! Celebrating International Women’s Day. Let’s Break the Bias! In honor of International Women’s Day, we want to contribute to a world that is inclusive, equitable, and free of bias. We strive to implement these values not only in the workplace but also in our neighborhoods, in our homes, and in our online communities.
Inkitt Celebrates Black History Month with our Featured Galatea Authors February is Black History Month. We wanted to feature a few of our favorite Black-identifying authors from our sister app, Galatea and share why Inkers love them so much!
Team Inkitt’s Walking Challenge During the last six weeks of 2021, our team at Inkitt participated in a collective walking challenge to walk 11 million steps that would inspire us to get up from our desks and move our bodies before settling into the colder winter months to come. While walking, we decided to raise funds in support of World Reader, a non-profit organization that provides reading via mobile phones and e-readers to children in underserved communities in a variety of different languages. Among the 38 participants on the Inkitt team, we covered an impressive 6310km in total - the distance from Berlin to New York City!
Employee Deep Dive: Miguel Tuiran — Exploring the Universe Through Design “I consider myself, as a person, driven by goals and success. I learn from those failures and look at my goals moving forward, as I do not stop. Once I accomplish a goal, I find another one and set the bar higher.” - Miguel Tuiran, Senior Product Designer of Inkitt.
T’is the Season! The Season of Giving Back, of course. This year at Inkitt, we decided that we wanted to support some organizations that we felt aligned with our mission of providing opportunities to undiscovered talents and turning them into globally successful authors. Currently, we love supporting World Reader, a non-profit organization that provides reading via mobile phones and e-readers to children in underserved communities in a variety of different languages from English, Spanish, Kiswahili, Hindi and Arabic.
Employee Deep Dive: Kara Barstead – Finding Her Voice “Young girls need to believe in their potential, see themselves in all kinds of spaces, and realize they can take center stage. ‘The only character in that video game was a woman. She had a cool suit and a laser gun, and she saved the galaxy.’” -- Kara Barstead, Customer Experience Agent of Inkitt.
Employee Deep Dive: Jakob Graff – Master of Analysis “Then I press the button, the programme runs for an hour, I go out, have a coffee, come back and the result is ready. That's what fascinated me so much about programming." -- Jakob Graff, Head of Product Analytics at Inkitt.
Employee Deep Dive: Thomas Clement – The Story Player We sat down with Thomas Clement, Content Operations Project Manager at Inkitt to learn more about the things in his life that he feels have made him who is today. Thomas loves to experience new stories and create new worlds in computer games. At Inkitt, he uses his playful approach to develop stories for the platform. Starting as a member of the writing team, he soon graduated to the newly formed Content Operations team at the start of 2021. One of his main duties is helping push the recently-signed books into what he deems ‘blockbuster’ territory.
