Sudha retweeted
Welp, cat’s out of the bag. I am very excited to be entrusted in this role and lead an organization that helped me get my start in my career. It will be a real honor to get to work in direct purpose for the betterment of my home state.
The Fund for New Jersey is thrilled to announce that our next president is @Brandon_McKoy. Read all about it: fundfornj.org/news/fund-new-…
Sudha retweeted
I'm heartbroken to share that my friend and @BeAHero co-executive director, @AdyBarkan died today due to ALS-related complications.
We are grieving - and we know everyone in our movement who had the privilege of knowing, loving, and being in the struggle with Ady is, too. 1/2
ALT The image is of a black and white text statement about the life of Ady Barkan, a lifelong activist and movement lawyer who died on November 1 from complications of ALS. A photo of Ady with his fist raised in the air is at the top of the page. Until his death, Ady fought to make expand access to health care at the organization he co-founded and co-led, Be A Hero. Ady is survived by his beloved family, his wife, Rachael King, and his kids - Carl and Willow.
We talk a lot about building trust in movement building, systems change work, and philanthropy, but sometimes taking the time to build trust ISN’T the best approach. Sometimes, there is no time to build trust because our issues are too urgent...
There is always risk involved when it comes to trust, but in operating this way, I think the biggest opportunity for surprise is in the trust and partnerships we get to create, and the potential change we can enable.
Read more of my thoughts on trust, and some of the lessons I’ve learned around trust, in my newest Medium post: medium.com/@sudhanandagopal/…
Just because they’re called “small” acts of kindness, doesn’t mean they can’t have BIG impact.
@allieevolpe wrote an interesting piece for Vox about how we tend to overestimate the effort — and underestimate the impact — of kind gestures.
“In other words, don’t fixate on picking out the best flowers for your partner or fear a distant friend will criticize your grammar in a text message. The gesture itself is more consequential than the content —
because it’s always worth it to do the nice thing rather than to avoid doing it out of fear of rejection or awkwardness.”
Read the full article: vox.com/even-better/23670005…
(a.k.a. still play nice, plead for understanding of their intentions, and never really confront their own power and transform it into a tool for justice).
To read more about what can be learned from Drew’s situation, and how these lessons can be applied to our movements, read my latest Medium piece via medium.com/@sudhanandagopal/…