The Totally True and Very Surreal Workday of an Unpaid New Yorker

M. M. De Voe
7 min readMay 17, 2022
Who is watching the workers?

Twelve years ago, without an MBA or really any kind of administrative experience, I founded a nonprofit. It didn’t start out that way, it started out as a no-budget reading series that a Columbia classmate and I came up with over lunch to find the answer to the impossible question, “how can you keep your creative career going after you have kids?”

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M. M. De Voe

Fictionista, collector of obscure awards, admirer of optimists in the face of dread. Author of 2 books that are polar opposites and yet the same. mmdevoe.com