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, physically, socially, and spiritually. Yet, we continue to fight to...
Is 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 staff managing the fallout from layoffs, funding gaps, resource...
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 spoke I affirmed how the epigenetic trauma of seeing Jews pulled from...
Friendship & Freedom: Free Workshop
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED: Hi friends, we're grateful for your interest! We've hit our capacity for this event and plan to run additional sessions once I'm back from my sabbatical. If you're not on our mailing list please sign up (bottom of this page) Let's get free!...
I’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, and grandmothers, and aunts, continue to take on more, and more, and...
You 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 color and hair texture. It is more than boxes or categories we like...
Work 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 elder care National parental/care-giver leave policy Thriving wage...
We 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 construct. 15 minute breaks 2x a day is a construct. 2 weeks PTO is a...
My 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 time – I stare at the ocean, I eat ALL the seafood in sight, I nap,...