“...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.”

"...great because finally folks are paying attention to this. The terrible part is that it took this pandemic for many people to pay attention..."

“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?”

“…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.”

“I intend to live the rest of my life with Love, in all the definitions of the name I selected for myself over 30 years ago. I am living intentionally in my Love of all aspects of the Culture of the African Diaspora.”

"I’m incredibly inspired by the number of frontline workers I know. Doctors, paramedics, grocery store workers. They give me a great deal of inspiration and perspective every single day…”