Twice in the past week I have been in spaces where a white woman has pointed out the role of implicit bias in intuition. This is true, and I’m glad we’re working to engage with that truth more directly. As I once heard Congresswoman Maxine Waters advise, it is wise…

I continue to be rocked by Sheryl Petty and Mark Leach’s Change Elemental monograph, Systems Change & Deep Equity: Pathways Toward Sustainable Impact, Beyond “Eureka!,” Unawareness & Unwitting Harm. I have been especially reflecting on what Sheryl Petty describes as “Eureka!” or “Columbus” moments in the systems change field: That…

Why do we need to give up sending love and light? Because too often this is a response that is used to project individual pathology on to systemic oppression. — To My Fellow Well-Meaning White Ladies, I think it’s time to consider retiring the phrase “sending you love and light”. So many of us are using it in a tone-deaf, un-self-aware, harmful way that I think it would behoove all of us to just let this phrase go.

This piece was originally written on the night of November 13th, 2019. I spent the evening of November 13th, 2019 with Jimmie, Sylvia, Arrie, Lizzie, Carolyn, Dorothy, & Kerwyn in Gadsden county. Gadsden county is Florida’s only majority African American county and one of its most disinvested & least healthy…

Roc Rochon, Rachael Reichenbach, and Taylor Biro Originally Published on October 23rd, 2020 in the Tallahassee Democrat It’s difficult for us to understand the city’s intentions behind “Tallahassee All Together — A Race Relations Summit.” On the surface, the effort made to produce this event indicates a willingness to have…

How can each of us invest who we truly are in service of caring for & supporting our community? Not who we think we should be, or what our sense of guilt, perfectionism, & obligation compels us to be. …

“The process of healing the brokenness, the broken-heartedness within ourselves, is the foundation for beginning to heal that in our larger society. We cannot have a healed society, we cannot have change, we cannot have justice if we do not reclaim and repair the human spirit. We simply cannot.” …

In this time of simultaneous whole system, multi-system transformation we are called to vulnerability & courage in all facets of our lives if we are to skillfully & effectively resist that which harms us & reimagine the world that we want. The word ‘Resist’ may bring to mind certain associations…