Shay 
Last month, I wrote a piece for Patreon patrons in which I posed the idea that, increasingly, Americans no longer share the same reality. The impetus for that piece was the Harris-Trump debate and how people’s political views and preferred narratives shaped how people saw the debate and who they deemed the winner. I had …
Twenty-eight years ago, two things happened that changed the trajectory of my life. I signed up for a stint as an AmeriCorps Vista, training to become a community organizer and working in a community on the far North side of Chicago and I found Jesus. I was baptized in Lake Michigan, and from that day …
I have spent the last 16 years as the executive director of several different non-profit organizations. For those not well-versed in the nonprofit world, my position is equivalent to the role of CEO in the for-profit sector. Given that less than 33% of non-profits in the United States are led by BIPOC folks, with less …