For someone who calls herself a visionary, hypes up her big optimist energy, says her work is fueled by imagination - I regularly underestimate the ways that dreaming has become a central part of my praxis as a changemaker and organizer.

Yes your community is resilient and passionate and powerful, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to expect that members will be fine and know how to take care of themselves. Remember to take care of them as well.

In this interview 99Pi’s amazing host Roman Mars interviewed social scientist Eric Klinenberg about his book - Palaces for the People How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization and the Decline of Civic Life. The episode explores some of my favourite things - community, public services, civic engagement and best of all - libraries!

As for me, I just want to see us thrive. Even under perfect conditions life is hard, but you and I know much of the suffering we endure and see around the world is there by design.

How I’m parenting myself through what I'm calling the “Covid Exhaustion-Wave Background” of 2020

We live in a world that has decided that human suffering and poverty are not only acceptable, but that they are the natural order of things.

It feels like everything is at risk of being torn away and eaten up in the jaws of this insatiable capitalism beast. Anything that can make money must make money, no matter the cost. But the cost is us... it’s humanity.

Anyone who’s ever worked on a team knows that team dynamics can have major impact on output. We've got some of the basics down pat when it comes to helping differently tuned people with disparate, maybe even oppositional energies, to create beautiful music together.

Oh man! So about a year ago I went to China for the 3rd UNESCO International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Roads and it was awesome, so behold, 10 highlights!