CommunityBuild Ventures is a pro-Black, solution-focused firm that’s committed to eliminating racial disparities by developing powerful and racial equity-driven leaders and organizations. One of the ways CommunityBuild Ventures accomplishes this goal is with the CommunityBuild Ventures Cooperative, a growing cooperative...
With a sponsorship from CommunityBuild Ventures, I had the pleasure of attending Presence Power Impact training with the CREATE Teacher Residency. This interactive institute allows participants to explore how the practices of compassion and discernment enhance their presence, power, and...
What can Natasha Harrison say!? This moment is nearly surreal. And I am so grateful and blessed!. I am incredibly honored to have been awarded the prestigious The Good Trouble Honor for Championing Equity by Atlanta’s Center For Civic Innovation....
The other day, I was invited to attend a webinar entitled Unique Impact, Unique Burdens: Insights into the Black Male Educator Experience. It was hosted by DonorsChoose. During the webinar, Kristen Joye Lyles, Vice President, Equity & Impact at DonorsChoose,...
Racial equity is a state that is possible only when one’s racial identity is no longer responsible for their future or their opportunities. It is one part racial justice, one part cultural empathy, and one part education. It seeks to dig...
“..institutions commonly and unconsciously assume POC [People of Color] who are invited into the institution should not only be grateful but should also want to be like the white people who invited them.”
“Change culture and you change lives. You can also change the course of history...When strategy competes with culture, culture wins every time. This is one of the reasons why the most brilliant anti-white supremacy strategies in the world have failed to dislodge white-body supremacy from our culture...But we can never belong to a strategy. We can never belong to a movement, either, though we can be part of it. We can only belong to a culture.”
"There is a common misconception that equity and equality mean the same thing — and that they can be used interchangeably, especially when talking about education. But the truth is they do not — and cannot."
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