Leadership Assembly for Duluth Council Races

Posted July 25, 2017

We invite our members and leaders to join us as we screen the candidates running for Duluth city council races this year.… Continue reading »

The Power of Women

Posted July 13, 2015

If someone were to ask you what leadership is, I’m sure your responses would be as varied as the responses I have heard when people are asked to define racial justice.  As is true of most things in our lives, our lived experience supersedes dictionary definitions.

Leadership per the Merriam Webster online dictionary is:  1) a position as a leader of a group, organization, etc; 2) the time when a person holds the position of leader; 3) the power or ability to lead other people.  Though I do not argue the definition as it appears, what leadership means to me is more convoluted.

As a child I dreamed of being president.  I wish I had a quarter for how many times I heard I was insane to think this was possible.  It is regrettably not the only situation in my life where I was informed my pursuit of leadership was ambiguously linked and limited due to my gender identity.  So my experience and definition of leadership inevitably became linked to how unattainable I felt it was for me to achieve because I am a woman.

I have been blessed in my life to have incredibly brave, intelligent and resilient women mentor me in my pursuit of leadership. … Continue reading »