Dec 28, 2020
In this episode I have a great time with super-producer Rob Ford, talking about Power Station's beginnings, aspirations and lessons learned. I don't love talking about myself but I do love talking about nonprofit advocacy and how it is being amplified through this platform. I talk about how I got involved in...
Dec 21, 2020
Here is a staggering statistic. Right now, 45 million Americans are struggling under the weight of $1.7 trillion in student debt. The college education that was supposed to create economic opportunity has far too often, particularly in communities of color, created deep generational harm. Parents have financed...
Dec 14, 2020
We will look back on 2020 as the moment when our nation’s longstanding systemic inequities became impossible to ignore. Just look at our digital divide. Right now, over 17 million children lack the requisite connectivity plans or devices needed to participate in a remote learning mandate. It is not only a problem of...
Dec 7, 2020
This nation is finally cracking open the conversations we need to have to make change possible. Systemic racial inequities have been exposed by COVID-19, particularly its disproportionate impacts on communities of color, which are stark and quantifiable. The loss of jobs, and by extension homes, for those with the most...
Nov 30, 2020
We know how nonprofits make change. They provide services, teach people how to organize and use those capacities to get legislation passed. Can cultural institutions also make change? In the case of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the answer is yes. While the experience of changemaking may be...