As I write this, it’s Saturday morning and Malaika and LaVoya from the CCI team are convening just a few blocks from my house to host our first ever DEI brunch!

Me? I’m down with covid, fortunately a mild case, but in consultation with my PCP, I’m following the original rather than current guidance and quarantining for five days.

And I feel… disappointed, yes of course, but also, surprisingly, I FEEL AMAZING!!!

April is Autism Acceptance Month - let’s move past mere awareness and dive into real, transformative action. In leadership, this means more than just acknowledging neurodiversity - it’s about creating environments where neurodivergent minds are not only accepted but truly supported to lead in their own authentic ways. When we give neurodiverse leaders the space to thrive, they become powerful catalysts for innovation, sparking creativity and unlocking collective wisdom in ways we can’t even predict.

“Impact is greater than intent” is one of those concepts that has been popularized over the past few years, especially within white liberal progressive culture.

The idea is that the impact that you have, meaning the impact of harm, outweighs whatever good intentions you might have.

It’s a concept, frankly, that I often see white women using to chastise each other in desperate attempts to virtue signal… which makes sense, given that white women are generally socialized to be pitted against one another by patriarchy and often are not able to see how accountability can be accompanied by support.

I’ve had this blog post brewing in my head for a while, since before I read Ijeoma Oluo’s piece “We have the right to not be annoyed” where this passage hit home:

Y’all (the white people out of pocket in my comments and DMs) keep thinking that this is all for you.

The books, the talks, the work - all of it is for you. You are sure that I and others who write and speak on race wake up every day and think, “how can I help white people today?” I’m not being facetious. You really do view us, in our anti-racist work and in our very existence, as “the help.”

Oooof, yeah this hit home.