How did I get into the work I do today? How did I chart a path that was not named for me at birth? How have I come to lead in a space that disadvantages people of my gender and race? These were just some of the questions on the table before us on a women’s leadership panel with the Maine NEW Leadership Program at the Margaret Chase Policy Center this Monday. I joined a power packed line-up of women: Zam Zam Moh

I was thrilled to speak with Vu Le, Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, about how he is working to break down barriers to POC leadership in the non-profit sector in his community of Seattle, Washington. I have to say I got emotional when I heard Vu’s advice about not giving up and staying the course. in growing Up With Community, there are so many (daily) times when I wonder what I am doing. As a woman

What would it look like to empower summer youth program leaders to build their own training and participatory grant making process? Let’s dive in! This Spring I worked with the Lewiston Campaign for Grade-Level Reading as they brought together a coalition of summer youth programs to take on the “summer slide” of literacy loss for 3rd and 4th graders throughout our community. Practitioners worked tog

Seeing your face projected on a classroom screen hundreds of miles away before noon on a Saturday could be a bit much. But not if you have the chance to speak to a group of folks doing the hard work of turning theory into practice. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Sean Thomas-Breitfeld’s graduate class at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Students (many of whom are already accompl