Interviews
Kyisha Velazquez, MS, LPC (Cohort 16)
”Part of my self-growth was not to find my voice – I always, already had my voice – but to have the courage to use it in the way that I wanted to use it.”
José Feliciano (Cohort 21), Be Intentive LLC Owner/Lead Consultant, Strategist, Educator, Community Engagement Practitioner, Movement Enthusiast…
"In a world where the dominant cultural default is to react – to do – that singular question and sound has so much power to slow things down, bring clarity, and create understanding..."
Liz Hammond (Cohort 8)
“...the facilitator said: ‘the work is not the workshop.’ I want to scream that from the mountaintops; what we need is to do right now.”
Janet Stolfi Alfano, MSW, Executive Director (Cohort 16)
"...great because finally folks are paying attention to this. The terrible part is that it took this pandemic for many people to pay attention..."
Kia Levey-Burden (Cohort 8)
“We use ‘leadership’ or ‘leader’ as one word, when it is full of so much meaning. How do we make space for the deeper complexities of leadership?”
Odell Montgomery Cooper (Cohort 15)
“…as a leader, I can’t worry about who I’m not anymore, what I can’t do - it’s who I am and what I can do. That’s what’s helping me to get through this.”