{"id":160436,"date":"2022-05-18T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=160436"},"modified":"2022-05-19T14:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T18:21:01","slug":"subramanian-published-in-washington-post-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2022\/05\/18\/subramanian-published-in-washington-post-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Subramanian Published in Washington Post Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_153273\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153273\" class=\"wp-image-153273 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Subramanian-2016-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Associate Professor of Communication Sushma Subramanian\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Subramanian-2016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Subramanian-2016-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Subramanian-2016-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Subramanian-2016-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Subramanian-2016-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-153273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate Professor of Communication Sushma Subramanian<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Studies Sushma Subramanian penned an article,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>She Pioneered the Sale of Breastmilk, Then Lost Everything: What the rise and fall of entrepreneur Elena Medo reveal about how we value women\u2019s labor<\/i>, which ran on May 13 in the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><i>Washington Post Magazine.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"xfont--article-body\"><em>About a week before Christmas in 2014, Elena Medo received the opening salvo against her latest breast milk company. She was at her new office in Lake Oswego, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, when she got a cease-and-desist letter. Prolacta Bioscience, the breast milk product company she founded in 1999 and then parted ways with in 2009, was instructing her new company, Medolac, to stop using its trade secrets.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"xfont-copy\"><em>Medo, then 61, was used to dealing with adversity. As the veritable founding mother of the breast milk industry, she had spent her life charting a controversial path to selling breast milk to hospitals. Medo had been accused of exploiting women to make money and of creating inequalities that hurt babies from poor families. But the products that she\u2019d sold have also been credited with improving the outcomes for tens of thousands of premature babies in hospital neonatal intensive care units.<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2022\/05\/13\/price-of-selling-breast-milk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Studies Sushma Subramanian penned an article,\u00a0She Pioneered the Sale of Breastmilk, Then Lost Everything: What the rise and fall of entrepreneur Elena Medo reveal about how we value women\u2019s labor, which ran on May 13 in the\u00a0Washington Post Magazine.\u00a0 About a week before Christmas in 2014, Elena Medo received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":153273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[8654],"class_list":{"0":"post-160436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-notes","8":"tag-ssubrama","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}