“Not my day job” things – Lisa Topol | Executive Creative Director

Dog Agility (Yeah, it’s a sport)

I compete at the highest level of national/int’l agility competitions with two of my rescue dogs (Schmutzy and Plop), and it’s as cool as all get out. Between them, they have a bunch of gold medals, national titles and world teams, and Plop is the two time Westminster agility champ! Here’s some video that looks…

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Feminist Power Awards

I was extremely honored to receive this award from the Feminist Press and CUNY. Here’s my acceptance speech about how Star Wars changed my life. It made actress Kathy Najimy laugh out loud, and she was in “Sister Act”, so she doesn’t mess around.

Political Activism

Besides co-running a “Progressive Agility Activists” social action network with over 2,000 members, I also created a series of protest posters and postcards that were available to download for free at womensmarchposters.tumblr.com. They quickly became online hits, were covered in several major news outlets (like USA Today, Jezebel, Vice and Robert Reich’s newsfeed) and I…

Jewelry

My sister and I made some cool jewelry and sold it to cool people.

Hot Dogs by Christopher Walken

I no longer eat hot dogs, but I still love them. This is my favorite essay about hot dogs by Christopher Walken.