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Harvard Advanced Leadership
Harvard Advanced Leadership
Harvard Advanced Leadership
I spent two years, 2020 and 2021, as a Fellow in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University learning and drawing from vast interdisciplinary resources to develop Mosaic Changemakers, a new social impact organization.
People often ask what courses did I take.
In the 2020 spring semester, for example, I took Raj Chetty's class
I spent two years, 2020 and 2021, as a Fellow in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University learning and drawing from vast interdisciplinary resources to develop Mosaic Changemakers, a new social impact organization.
People often ask what courses did I take.
In the 2020 spring semester, for example, I took Raj Chetty's class on 'Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems' as well as Cornel West's 'Introduction to African American Studies.'
At the Harvard Business School, I took 'Reimagining Capitalism' with Ethan Rouen, 'War and Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation, Policy and Humanity' with Deepak Malhotra, and 'Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change' with Brian Trelstad.
I also delved into 'Making Change when Change is Hard' with Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein, 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' with Erica Chenoweth, and 'Queer Nation: LGBTQ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United States' with Timothy McCarthy.
Two of the most illuminating courses I took were 'Race, Inequality, and American Democracy' with Khalil Muhammad and 'Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in America' with Richard Parker.
Mosaic Changemakers
Harvard Advanced Leadership
Harvard Advanced Leadership
After 25 years in the nonprofit sector, in 2020 I launched Mosaic Changemakers, a social impact organization on a mission to weave a better South by supporting, developing and connecting leaders of color who are on the front lines of the fight for social, economic and racial justice. Ultimately, I hope together we build a Black/Brown/Go
After 25 years in the nonprofit sector, in 2020 I launched Mosaic Changemakers, a social impact organization on a mission to weave a better South by supporting, developing and connecting leaders of color who are on the front lines of the fight for social, economic and racial justice. Ultimately, I hope together we build a Black/Brown/Gold lifelong leaders network of mutual support.
Starting in my home state of Tennessee, Mosaic Changemakers' flagship initiative is the Mosaic Fellowship, a leadership program through which educators, community organizers, artists, policymakers and other changemakers of color undertake a year-long, cohort-based rigorous and restorative journey to strengthen our individual and collective power to lead change.
I conceived the Mosaic Fellowship in 2016 after my own transformative experience at The Aspen Institute’s Pahara Aspen Leadership Fellowship. The Mosaic Fellowship launched in 2017 as a program of Conexión Américas, the Nashville-based nonprofit organization serving Latine and other immigrant families in Tennessee that I co-founded in 2002 and led until May 2019. The program spun off from Conexión Américas in 2020 to become Mosaic Changemakers, an independent nonprofit organization.