Moving from Paralysis to Action
I’ve been reading Diana Block’s memoir, Arming the Spirit, and am grateful for the chance to dig into another story of someone whose work for social justice came before me and contributed to where...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Class
One of the most intense and unique pieces of the Making Money Make Change (MMMC) conference, is the Money Stories session. Picture a room with 70 young people with wealth (accumulated, inherited, or...
View ArticleLessons from a Facilitation Evangelist
I attended a powerful, short workshop led by Adrienne Maree Brown (abbreviated from longer trainings she offers) and Invincible on how to facilitate high tension and/or high conflict conversations at...
View ArticleDo You Have a Vision?
It’s the beginning of a new year, and all the treadmills are occupied at the gym. It’s hard to find any space in the locker room because so many people are set on establishing a new healthy routine for...
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Cracking the Codes of Racial Inequity
I recently got to attend two events with racial equity educator and filmmaker, Shakti Butler, in Boston. Her new film, Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity, is full of stories that help...
View ArticleCollective Impact Starting with One
I often feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of change that’s needed and how far we have to go to realize the just society we’re working towards. It can feel daunting and on a bad day, nearly impossible....
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Searching for Decolonial Love
What is decolonial love, why must we cultivate it, and how can we practice it? These are a few of the questions that have been turning over and over in my mind since I heard Junot Díaz speak so...
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Finding Focus and Minimizing Distraction
How often do you hear people saying they wish they were better at multitasking? And what percentage of the people surrounding you on the subway or on the sidewalk or waiting in line for something are...
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Social Justice Funders Network
Andrea Nagel and I have been facilitating retreats for the Social Justice Funders Network (SJFN) of Massachusetts for the last year and a half or so. What an honor! Network members include individuals...
View ArticleAll-In-Nation: Vision for 2050
Sometime around 2040 the U.S. will become a majority people of color nation, according to census projections. Already the majority of our children under the age of one are of color. These demographic...
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Lessons in Emergent Alignment
“We have to rid ourselves of the notion that innovation relies on the genius of an individual. We produce and innovate together only in networks.” - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and...
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Re-Imagining Cities
At IISC we often talk about three hugely important pieces of context for social change work these days: We are in the middle of a paradigm shift, from the Industrial Age into an age that doesn’t have...
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Teeth: A Social Justice Issue
What is the number one reason for school absences in low income communities in the U.S.? It’s dental-related illness. I was blown away when I learned this. It was not what those of us working on the...
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Laverne and CeCe Shed Light on Liberation
Transgender women of color are finally making a (positive) splash in the mainstream media. Janet Mock, a writer, has been getting accolades for her new memoir, Redefining Realness: My Path to...
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Living Cities Takes Facilitative Leadership to Heart
Two recent graduates of a Facilitative Leadership for Social Change workshop Mistinguette Smith and I led in New York, Alison Gold and Juan Sebastian Arias from Living Cities, recently wrote to us...
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We are in the midst of a crisis in this country.
We are in the midst of a crisis in this country. When a split second decision by one person results in multiple wounds or death for a young man or young woman. Because he didn’t get off the sidewalk...
View Article#BlackLivesMatter. What can be done about the police?
This post is a continuation of “We are in the midst of a crisis in this country.” Over the last few days, Black activists from cities across the U.S. joined the Black Life Matters Ride, traveling to...
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