This podcast is for leaders and emerging leaders who want to make a difference in the world. The podcast explores strategies, tools and stories to help you strengthen your social change and nonprofit leadership skills.
B-Change
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This podcast is for leaders and emerging leaders who want to make a difference in the world. The podcast explores strategies, tools and stories to help you strengthen your social change and nonprofit leadership skills.
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6/10/2019
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Recent Episodes
June 28, 2020
ONLINE Lunch and Learn at JCC Manhattan: How Positive Practices Help Achieve Social Justice
On June 16 Marcy and I zoomed down to Manhattan to participate in a dialogue about positive psychology and social justice, one of the central themes of the B-Change podcast. Our conversation highlights the very timely need to connect positive practices — such as focusing on strengths, practicing meditation, expressing gratitude — with systemic social change.JCC Manhattan, through its online lunch and learn program, co-sponsored by the Wholebeing Institute, devoted a full week to discussions on this topic. We hope the energy remains strong to continue to connect positive psychology and social justice into the future and to take action as allies to communities of color.In this episode, Marcy and I are interviewed by Caroline Kohles, Senior Director of Health & Wellness Programming at JCC. We would also like to express our gratitude to Phoebe Atkinson, who worked behind the scenes to make this episode possible.We spoke with Caroline about: How social justice leaders can use the tools of positive psychology to be more effective and resilient during difficult times. How the leadership of social justice organizations can better reflects social justice values. What is the role of a white leader in a time of black and brown-led activism?
June 14, 2020
The Rise of MAMAS: Solidarity Not Charity
Jessie Norriss joined Mutual Aid of Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) on March 12, 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic began and when the group was barely a week old. MAMAS, like other mutual aid societies that popped up around the country at that time, played an essential role in the collection and distribution of needed goods and services like food, rent, language interpretation, and transportation.But there is more to this story. MAMAS’ slogan, like many other mutual aid societies around the country, is “Solidarity not charity.”As Jessie says in this B-Change interview, “In charities, you're coming from a place of ‘I have something to offer to these poor disenfranchised communities over there but I'm not a part of them.’ We really try to break down that hierarchy.’”Even as MAMAS has helped community members share needed resources during the crisis, they also sought to address systemic inequities that have become much more obvious during the pandemic. For example, with many languages spoken in the communities that MAMAS is working in, MAMAS has made language justice a priority, engaging residents proficient in languages other than English.As Jessie told us, “We came forward first as neighbors supporting neighbors but there is an underlying political education and redistribution campaign that obviously we're not going to shy away from.”We also talk with Jessie about: How the volunteers at MAMAS were able to quickly set up a structure that could respond to many needs of the communities that MAMAS worked with. The connection between her study of water quality at Tufts University’s Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy and her organizing and technical support role at MAMAS. The story of the neighbor to neighbor snow shoveling brigade that MAMAS grew out of. Resources mentioned in this episode:Mutual aid Medford and Somerville (MAMAS) MAMAS Replication Document: Mutual Aid: how to build a network in your neighborhood (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ca-sz4DRNvUg8ezcrfd6awH-ahxBDJwnbdzxm4_qDVs/edit)Tufts University Department of Urban and environmental policy and Planning (https://as.tufts.edu/uep/)Wikipedia article and talk about the origins and meaning of mutual aid societies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid_(organization_theory)Article: Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival by Dean Spade (http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Mutual-Aid-Article-Social-Text-Final.pdf)
April 12, 2020
Sharing Leadership: A Conversation with Sheerine Alemzadeh (Re-release)
Is it healthy for an organization to have leadership centralized in one person — the executive director? Is leadership development “one size fits all”?Sheerine Alemzadeh and Karla Altmayer turned the conventional model of nonprofit leadership on its head when they co-founded Healing to Action, a Chicago-based nonprofit that engages low wage workers in combatting sexual violence. In this episode, Alemzadeh takes our listeners into her organization’s journey, where they tackled: - Broadening leadership from one central leader to a co-directorship model. - Sharing power and leadership with their constituents — survivors of sexual violence. - Finding new ways to tap these survivors’ unique strengths, recognizing that traditional organizing fails to account for their traumatic experiences. Sheerine recommended two resources:Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.htmlTrauma Stewardship, Laura Lipskyhttps://traumastewardship.com/laura-van-dernoot-lipsky/
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