Recent Posts
Why Now?
My plan was to slowly develop Advancing Wisdom during my last years of parenting and do my professional launch in 2023 or thereabouts. What changed?
Education Needs a Greatest Generation
One hundred years ago, education was a very different thing. Also fifty years ago, and three hundred years ago, and ten years ago (just before Common Core rolled out). I’m certain ten and twenty years from now, the same will be true…
Black Reparations
Reparations need to include cultural and structural revisions as well as significant financial restitution…
The Climate War in California
We’re not making any new policy, but at least we’ll know how much worse the battle is going every year…
My new anti-racism community
I didn’t want to step out into active anti-racism work before I had someone give me the once over, not just for readiness, but for safety of the people of color I’d be working for and with…
Antiracism & white people
It’s necessary for white people to participate in antiracism work. It’s also dangerous…
Climate justice is racial justice
Find and support environmental organizations led by people of color…
From theory to praxis
I’ve accomplished more in my first three weeks in this community than I did in three years of reading books…
History, or Propaganda?
I learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre when I went actively searching for erased or rejected history…
I am a donor to the human rights and racial justice organization Equal Justice Initiative. EJI’s founder and Executive Director is Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and one of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellows…