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Interdependent consultant, working towards equity, community collaboration, and anti-racism. Dad, husband, biking, baseball. He/him/his.

The State of Grace.
Joined May 2010
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Coming out of Twitter Hibernation to promote a great report on stewardship; we are shared caretakers -- not owners -- of our skills, experience, privilege, power. @RippleHealth reports on stewardship values, priorities, and practices. bit.ly/2021PulseCheck
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Coming out of Twitter hibernation to thank @ktaglang for his quarter-century of service. Your friends are proud of you and your work to bridge the digital divide.
Replying to @Benton_Inst
A surprise award for Benton Executive Editor @ktaglang celebrating 25 years of #Headlines! The best way to celebrate with us? Subscribe & forward the newsletter here: benton.org/subscribe-to-bent…
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Looking for recent work on how state and local #publichealth agencies are embedding #equity in their #COVID testing, tracing, vaccination, to identify #policies & practices for recommendations. Other similar meta-analyses are the holy grail! We’ll share back.
Food for thought, part 2. Our colleagues in WIN with Business offer another opportunity to engage on equity with the business side of the food sector:
10.5. That is the percent of the United States that is currently food insecure. At our WIN with Business Webinar, we'll discuss how businesses can help their communities with equitable access to food for all. Register below!: bit.ly/2TpyMIO
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Please join me @FoodChoices4All and Marcus Coleman for a @WEintheWorldOrg listening session on measuring racial justice and intergenerational wellbeing in the food and agriculture sector, this Thursday. weintheworld-org.zoom.us/mee…
When I was with @DASH_connect and #allindata4health we said that the "wisdom is in the room." Help DASH generate the biggest room possible and add your community's experience to this important body of knowledge.
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Aliaa Eldabli and I wrote a summary of the recent listening session @WEintheWorldOrg hosted on the demographics of racial justice and intergenerational well-being. Grateful for presentations by @mhugolopez, Kerith Conron & Gerald Boyd. winnetwork.org/blog/how-do-w…
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The Pirates radio call is marvelous.
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#AllInData4Health's FIFTH annual meeting is this fall. Do you have learnings to share from your work in multi-sector community based-data sharing? Learn more and submit a proposal to present bit.ly/3w0Dyu9 People with lived experience encouraged to apply!
Very excited to see this ⁦@DASH_connect⁩ report on lessons and insights from 179 community data-sharing initiatives nationwide. Lots of progress and promise, so much more to do. Congratulations ⁦@tanner_c_mphi⁩ and all. dashconnect.org/an-emerging-…
Lots of people have an opinion about Tim Scott saying: “America is not racist country.” I don’t. I wanted to see if he was right. theroot.com/was-tim-scott-ri…
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#LivedExperience at the end of “Captain America and the Winter Soldier” as Sam speaks truth to power: “But the question is, who’s in the room with you when you make those decisions? Is it the people you’re going to impact? Or is it more people like you?” @FoodChoices4All
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I loved this new episode of the All In podcast. Miriam Castro from @DASH_connect is a wonderful and generous host and @Combsthepoet is a fascinating guest. So happy the podcast is back and looking forward to listening to Season Three!
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Kalief Browder allegedly stole a backpack at 16, spent 3 yrs at Riker's Island without trial. Riley Williams stole a laptop from Speaker Pelosi's office and tried selling it the Russians. She was released to her mother There are two justice systems in America #BlackLivesMatter
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The last time I was here in 2017, Capitol police were escorting me to central booking for leading a non-violent protest of an immoral budget. This time they just had to show me to my office.
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Here are some of my favorite stories about Martin Luther King Jr. that you won't hear today from people who wanted to paint him as this adorable teddy bear and not the radical that he was. A thread.
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On this MLK day, in this complex moment of reckoning, I vow to apply my labor, will, and capital to the causes he stood for. Money to Black causes. My consistent, reliable, labor applied. No one day of the year platitudes > change
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