Ginny Badanes

Ginny Badanes is a Strategic Advisor for Microsoft’s Technology and Civic Engagement team. She lives in Arlington, VA with her husband and their two small boys.

📍 Arlington, VA

The Unexpected Season

It was a quick stop at the grocery store, nothing that should have taken more than ten minutes. My two boys (two and four years old at the time) were causing chaos on every aisle. When we finally made it to the checkout I nodded approval for them to get

Confessions of a Competitive Female

I am a very competitive woman. The source of my competitiveness likely derives from being an athlete in my formative years or perhaps it’s because I have two older brothers I was always trying to impress growing up. Whatever the reason, the truth remains that I am super competitive,

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How I Became The Manager I Thought I Already Was

I remember it clearly, my friends and I laughing at the absurdity that we were now managing a group of interns. Wasn’t it just yesterday that we were the interns?! How did we get so old?! And yet now, ten-ish years later, many of us are managing not just