Let's Talk Racial Equity and Leadership with Sheri Brady | S2, Ep 4
In this week's episode of Race In The Workplace, I am delighted to mix it up with my dear friend, Sheri Brady, Vice President of Strategy and Program at the Children's Defense Fund.
In this episode, Sheri Brady and I talk about the following:
👉 what she has learned from her vast leadership experience - not just the importance of centering racial equity but how a leader can do it;
👉 collective impact and why community engagement is vital is so vital to advocacy, and,
👉 funding challenges facing community-based organizations.
This interview is a meaningful conversation for me because I admire Sheri's work and her willingness to ask hard questions. Tune in to discover how to go from being colorblind to equity-centered through effective organizational leadership.
Topics discussed in this episode:
1- Outline of today’s topic and Sheri’s professional career background. [0:00:39]
2 -Details about Sheri and her current role at the Children's Defense Fund. [0:03:35]
3- Important considerations regarding the topic of racial equality. [0:08:03]
4- We discuss the concept of collective impact and how Sheri ties it into her work. [0:15:12]
5- The important questions Sheri raised, how they were received, and the definition of diversity. [0:20:20]
6- Sheri explains why incorporating lived experiences into policies is so important. [0:23:09]
7- The empowerment that comes with someone being able to tell their own story. [0:24:53]
8- Overview of the challenges facing effective community engagement and funding. [0:27:13]
9- Learn about the intersection between race equity and leadership and the different approaches to addressing the problem. [0:29:59]
10- Sheri shares how people can be more intentional about racial equity. [0:34:44]
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Sheri Brady on LinkedIn
- Children's Defense Fund
- 'Collective Impact' by John Kania and Mark Kramer, Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011 [0:13:38]
- Collective Impact Forum[0:16:06]
- 'Centering Equity in Collective Impact' by John Kania, Junious Williams, Paul Schmitz, Sheri Brady, Mark Kramer & Jennifer Splansky Juster [0:20:20]
Guest information:
Sheri is the Vice President of Strategy and Program with the Children’s Defense Fund, where she guides the organization’s programmatic work, ensuring that CDF’s efforts in policy advocacy, service delivery, and movement building are aligned to maximize the impact on children’s lives. Before joining CDF, Ms. Brady was the Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions, managing an emerging and expanding body of work focused on supporting community power-building and equity, which included overseeing key partnerships focused on building philanthropic field practices around community-centered grantmaking. She was previously the Director of Policy at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, providing foundation-wide policy and advocacy grantmaking leadership.
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