The work has familiar names:
Strategic Planning
Retreats and Convenings
Organizational Development & Management
Initiative Building
Strategic Communications or Narrative Strategy
What matters is how we approach it:
A strong plan doesn’t bet everything on one future. We need strategies that account for changing conditions.
A gathering only matters if something changes after people leave.
Healthy organizations don’t avoid tension; they build the trust and capacity to work through it.
What if instead of building initiatives for others to join us, we’re the ones being invited instead?
Communicating beyond magic words.
What shapes my practice
My practice lives at the intersection of racial justice, radical imagination, and the real, everyday work of organizations. I feel grateful to have learned alongside communities and teachers who remind me that how we work together is not just a path to change, but part of the change itself.
Here are a few I return to often:
"A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation
is one of the great historical contributions of humankind."