Blythe joined the ICA Group in 2021 as an administrative assistant, helping out with bookkeeping and data entry, after working similar roles at other companies. Her favorite past job was at another nonprofit, which motivated her to join the staff of ICA. She has also worked as an ESL teacher, providing online English lessons to Chinese students.
Blythe graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in Linguistics. Her undergraduate dissertation was on a specific aspect of the linguistics of Twitter, and she presented her research on superlinguistics (the application of linguistic analysis to non-linguistic forms of communication and expression) at the 42nd GLOW conference in Oslo, Norway in 2019. While at Hampshire College, she founded and co-lead a social justice-oriented student group.
I work on a number of administrative projects, including bookkeeping and data entry.
When I was a child, my family did the majority of our grocery shopping at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op. I remember being very intrigued by how it was set up.
Stella Young’s talk, “I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much.” It’s a well-laid-out evisceration of an all-too-common form of disability discrimination; this specific form is often viewed as a “good thing” in society.
I have a number of hobbies—fiber arts, cooking and baking, and indoor gardening—that I enjoy doing in my spare time and I work a part-time schedule that gives me plenty of that.
I am located in Northampton, where I moved shortly after graduating from Hampshire College.
I almost exclusively read SciFi and Fantasy novels. One of my favorite novels is The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. It’s about a young man who was never expected to take the throne; that is, until his father and older brothers are killed. He isn’t exactly imperial material, and he desperately tries to keep his kind heart while also wielding an immense amount of power. It looks very frankly at the compromises that people in power must make, and how hard it is to stay uncorrupted when making them.
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