Leadership Growth for Social Impact

In this galvanzing moment, as we rally behind and hope for our first woman and first Black and Brown President, we have an opportunity to rethink interracial relationships and get it right. We have all been raised in a society that fractures authentic intercultural appreciation, awareness, and inclusion — often through no deliberate fault of our own. With her deep personal experience navigating across difference, I bring a uniquely relatable approach to guide us towards lasting change.

Through my growing engagements as an advisor to boards, employee resource groups (ERGs), philanthropic and nonprofit groups, and others in using these tools and tactics to design successful diversity and inclusion, equitable praxis, and cultures of belonging and mattering, I've built a suite of topics for keynotes, guest speaking, workshops, and media (podcasts), such as:

• Five flubs to avoid saying and doing when building relationships across      cultural, racial, and ethnic difference
• We cannot change what we don’t see: Considering privilege, power, and hidden bias as deterrents to cross-racial and cultural collaboration
• Why “niceness” is not enough: how sneaky norms such as tone-policing,      stereotyping, and white savior complex impede trust 
• Inspiring BIPOC women in history and what we can all learn from them
• Why these are much more than Black-white issues

“No change is lasting unless it begins from the innermost, honest self-reflection. My course, my books, and my advisory practice all serve to help us examine vectors of privilege, unlearning nefarious histories and challenging inaccurate cultural norms, and begin to understand the distinctions between allyship (a title you cannot claim, it must be earned) all the way up to devoted sisterhood. This is a leadership as well as a personal growth resource, as we can all improve in how we interact, freely and appropriately, within the pluralistic situations, contexts, or tasks we are engaged in.”