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Investing for Racial Justice
November 18, 2018
Cornerstone Capital’s Randy Strickland hosts Julianne and Zevin Asset Management’s Pat Tomaino.
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Cognitive Dissonance
September 25, 2018
"Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs—all had to be rectified at lightning speed..."
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Build a Bridge; Do It For You
September 7, 2018
To my sista, Aretha Franklin: Thank you for being my musical bridge over troubled waters. You will be missed. Did you feel at an early age that you knew what you were destined to be?
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Summertime, and Social Equity Investing Is … Easy?
July 23, 2018
I remember when summer used to be a sleepy season of out-of-office notices, when conversations turned to beach reading and extended getaways.
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Book Club
May 29, 2018
I am a fiction reader. I am a fiction reader. Engaging fiction challenges our preconceptions, urges us to ask better questions, and prepares us to see new connections, new possibilities beyond the status quo.
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Take the Leap. The Water is Fine
May 14, 2018
Tom Lee called me out of the blue one day. Founder of T. H. Lee Partners and a leading private equity guy riding high on many recent successes, Tom was an outgoing, likable, yet no-nonsense kind of person who didn’t make a practice of calling me just to chat. So I was always curious to know what he had on his mind.
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Spring Break!
April 19, 2018
It is actually *snowing* here in Massachusetts as I type this. Very picturesque, albeit somewhat alarming. Bill Nye framed the tension perfectly: “Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.”
News + Appearances
Thank You Dr. King.
April 4, 2018
50 years ago at this moment, 6:01 pm EST, your journey with us ended with an assassin’s bullet that took your life. You carried us far, showing us what having a moral obligation means. Action. Compassion. Love.
Ed Talk
A Call for Radical Inclusion
April 2, 2018
I did not see that coming. Before I knew it I was sobbing, sometimes uncontrollably, for the next two hours. I had sat down to watch the March for Our Lives on TV, not expecting to watch for more than a short while, not prepared to see or experience anything new, not willing to have what I saw sway me one way or another.
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Making Change
March 7, 2018
Let’s just acknowledge out loud that effecting transformational change is a lot more challenging than we might like it to be.
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Celebrating Our Worthiness
February 15, 2018
When Sam Cooke wrote these lyrics in 1964 to his popular song, A Change is Gonna Come, there was no Black History Month that provided an annual moment in time to reflect on a people’s journey within our American story. We were in the midst of a surging Civil Rights Movement
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TIME!
January 17, 2018
For anyone who tuned in to watch (or was privileged to attend) the Golden Globes on January 7th, there was an inescapable message: Time’s Up for gender- and race-based inequities in Hollywood and beyond.