Emily Kruger’s social justice in the workplace

The former Portland Thorn got schooled when they asked teammates to say Black Lives Matter

Can a socially-conscious person thrive within the sports industrial complex?

The story told by Ellen Kruger in this week’s Sojourn podcast episode doesn’t directly hit that theme until the last few minutes. The South Bay Area native’s preceding answers to my questions, however, form a tale about that quandary.

A lot of their story is best told below, but…