Stories of Community
A collection of stories about people and organizations making strides in changing their communities for the better.
On May 15, I had the privilege of speaking at the Triangle2 Member Innovation Summit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, alongside YMCA leaders from across the country. My Big Idea Talk focused on something simple yet essential: relationships. We ...
A National Storytelling Initiative to Help Us Listen More Deeply, Reconnect More Honestly, and Imagine a Future Where We All Belong America has always been a nation of stories. And clearly, for some time now, ...
Listen on YouTube instead. So… I’m practicing what we preach. Vulnerability in leadership as a key to inviting understanding of experiences – mine and other people’s, too. And I want to do this in the ...
The following essay is adapted from a talk I gave at the YMCA of Greater Richmond 2023 DEI Symposium on May 19, 2023, and is part of my Sojourn, America series of stories and essays. ...
Faith. A word instantly comforting to some and off-putting to others, because it can be deeply intertwined with our upbringings. Some of us enjoyed the faith traditions we experienced growing up, others ran away from ...
Growing up in New York, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were a constant presence in the cityscape – and in the city’s psyche. Bland, boring, monolithic. Nevertheless they became accepted over time, and ...
“Are we just waiting for everyone on the other side to die, so we can declare victory?” This might be the question we ask ourselves as we observe our behavior and the behavior of others ...
365 days later, we are all asking ourselves what the past year has meant. Was George Floyd’s death a wakeup call? Yes, I believe it was. It woke some people up to what more is ...
“You are a Joseph,” my mother used to say to me. It was her way of saying I was a bridge between people. A connector of the unexpected sort. I’ve always known this to be ...
I originally shared this on May 30th. And unsurprisingly, you can substitute “last night” in the first paragraph for any point in time over the past four weeks and it is still relevant. This is ...
