There’s no equity without reproductive justice: We will continue fighting for...
Many of y’all know that every day I get up and say aloud my grounding vision for equity work. It is the famous quote from Assata Shakur: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win....
View ArticleMy Summer Reading List! – Time to turn the pages…
It’s August and it’s time for my summer break. I take off every August to reset and renew prior to the Fall overwhelm, which always hits my firm as we wrap up client work for the year. I savor this...
View ArticleWe Are More Than Our Time, Productivity & Output
Time is a construct. 9-5 workday is a construct. Having to “earn” sick days is a construct. That meetings should last 30 minutes or 60 minutes is a construct. Only 48 hours for a weekend is a...
View ArticleWork Cultures Should Not Consume Us
I have a question, what do you think your life would look like if everything (or even a few!) of the below were reality? Universal health care Universal sick-leave benefits Universal childcare and...
View ArticleYou can’t talk about race if you ain’t gonna talk about power
Race is a human-invented concept used to categorize people with devastating consequences. White supremacy is the system of power used to create and reinforce those consequences. Race is more than skin...
View ArticleI’m committing to rest: my sabbatical
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” -Zora Neale Hurston Deeply tired, emotionally exhausted Black women seem to be the norm. Many of us watched our mothers,...
View ArticleFriendship & Freedom: Free Workshop
“Communities sustain life—not nuclear families, or the “couple,” and certainly not the rugged individualist. There is no better place to learn the art of loving than in community.” -bell hooks When...
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The only liberation is a shared liberation
Last week I sat on my porch with one of my closest friends who is Jewish. We talked about the pain, grief, and anger we were experiencing as we witnessed so much death in Israel and Palestine. As we...
View ArticleIs it ok to celebrate an inch? Takeaways from 2023
Hi y’all, A theme we’ve seen throughout the year with our clients is folks feeling disheartened because their DEI and racial equity work didn’t make as much progress as they’d hoped. We’ve watched...
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Soft with each other hard on systems
Hello friends! Last week, I had the privilege and honor of speaking on two different panels about how the systems we find ourselves in are hard on every one of us. They are hard on us emotionally,...
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