Over the past 10+ years, both my professional and volunteer work has focused on racial equity at the intersection of art and culture. During the height of the global pandemic, I brought attention to the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s...
Category: CULTURE TRANSFORMATION
Key Skills to Move Towards Racial Equity: Holding Space
“A settled body enables you to harmonize and connect with other bodies around you, while encouraging those bodies to settle as well…Learning to settle your body and practicing wise and compassionate self-care are not about reducing stress; they’re about increasing...
Key Skills to Move Towards Racial Equity: Noticing
“What I saw through the lens of my work was not a tragedy in the killings of unarmed people but the long arc of history. These were predictable outcomes based on the logic of weaponized fear and a legal system...
Shift the Power. Free the Money. Lessons in Community-led Grantmaking: Part IV
Shift the Power. Free the Money. is a 4-part series to understand and embrace community-led grantmaking. Shift the Power. Free the Money. is a reflection on how to effectively shift power and center the voice and experience of Black people,...
Key Skills to Move Towards Racial Equity: Practicing Accountability
“True accountability is not only apologizing, understanding the impact your actions have caused on yourself and others, making amends or reparations to the harmed parties; but most importantly, true accountability is changing your behavior so that the harm, violence, abuse...
Key Skills to Move Towards Racial Equity
“We cannot disrupt our oppression using the logic that justifies our oppression.” -Audre Lorde Each time a person who wants to engage us says, “Our organization wants to be racial equity centered.” I hear, “So, you want to confront and...
