anything but your wallet
by No matter the activist circle you’re in, everyone wants to bring about change. How do we create the conditions for the world we want to see? Most groups try to …
Category: essay
thought experiments
developing a liberatory consciousness
I’m still reading through the work of critical liberation theory. I shared my first reading on the topic a couple weeks back. Critical liberation theory was first proposed by Love, …
ruining it for everyone
I went for a walk last week. I wasn’t having a particularly good day and needed to go out into the world to help clear my head. I bought a …
who is america for?
There are no safe harbors. Week after week, day after day, we feel the erosion of our rights and liberties. The protections many of us have long enjoyed are going …
step by step
Why don’t we have a template for implementing racial equity practices? I get this question every now and then. I totally understand: we seek to upend an entrenched way of …
the potted plants
[Quick note: I’m taking a break next week to get myself back together as I recover from covid. New posts will resume on June 24.] I’ve been living in isolation …
a vision for the future, part 2
Another week, another horrifying massacre. Any one of these events should have been enough to grind our country to a halt. Instead, there have been 212 mass shootings in america …
terms and conditions
American society consists of people with deep disagreements about pretty much everything. But I know there’s one thing we can all agree on: nobody is reading the terms of service …
moving the unmovable
[Hi everyone, quick note from me here. I recently wrote this blog post alongside a training I led for the Washington Society of Association Executives and their learning series, ‘Shop …
a vision for the future
For the last year I worked on the local health department’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy. This is the third pandemic I’ve worked at a public health agency, and I’m grateful to …