Lean Thinking Won’t Make Your Organization More EquitableThere’s a conversation happening about whether or not lean thinking and practice helps make work more fair and equitable. This matters to…Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021
On moving beyond the goal of consensusWatching The Black National Convention in August 2020, in a segment about The Highlander Center in Tennessee, Executive Director Ash-Lee W…Jan 8, 2021Jan 8, 2021
Published inChangemaker Strategies9 Insights on What It Takes to Make “Money Moves That Matter”Oct 23, 2019Oct 23, 2019
Feminist Businesses Observe the Laws of the Earth“Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people…May 13, 20191May 13, 20191
Published inPowerbitches GatherMoney as A Circle: Working Class Money LessonsWhen you grow up seeing people underpaid for their valuable work — in my case, both of my parents and many members of my community in a…Mar 25, 2019Mar 25, 2019
Lessons from Alison Hawthorne Deming and Sarah Schulman on hope and organizing during a…These are just two threads of learning that I took away from Social Justice Week at Fine Arts Work Center in July 2018 among many, many…Jul 31, 2018Jul 31, 2018
Ballez creator Katy Pyle on women as makers and using ballet to explore new power structuresIn 2015, I interviewed Katy Pyle after dance class at Gibney Dance Studio where she had been teaching wildly energizing Ballez classes to…May 14, 2018May 14, 2018
Move As If Women Are Half the World and You Are Part of Something Larger“One of the things we press on [children] is competition. You know, because we have so much bought into the idea that competition is a law…May 8, 2018May 8, 2018
Published inChangemaker StrategiesThree Ideas to Help us Build the Feminist Businesses of the Future“Conventional tools show us the conventional view. To envision something different, we need different tools.”Feb 14, 2018Feb 14, 2018
Published inChangemaker StrategiesGwendolyn VanSant and Tuti Scott on Tapping Into the Power of Our Bodies as We Work for Justice &…In fall 2017, I had the opportunity to interview my colleagues Gwendolyn VanSant and Tuti Scott about why they have chosen to work together…Feb 9, 2018Feb 9, 2018