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I build community by crafting safe and playful spaces to nurture relationships, champion failures, and celebrate growth 💜

New York 🇺🇸 🇹🇹
Joined December 2008
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Lesss gooo golden queen @sunisalee_ 🥇✊
The moment Suni Lee learned she'd won Olympic gold 🥇❤️
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Our next #CommunityCall on Aug 4th is a peer session where we get to hear from members of the community about building #ResearchOps playbooks. The event is not public and unfortunately not recorded either. Get your tickets from the Slack group!
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#ResearchOps tweeps, we're pleased to welcome new board members to the ReOps Community! Please welcome: @rajoon @algazel @DanaChrisfield, Pollie Barden, @frebader, @grahamg4rdner @jahnavimirashi We are delighted to have you on board to help lead the community into the future 🙌
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Imagine a world where we can all live in peace and harmony 🙏
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“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself” - Wangarĩ Muta Maathai #honoringourwomen #allyearlong #thebackboneofourcommunity
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Cheers to my best friend & my soulmate. “Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon” ✨🙏🏾🌒🥂@thesoulplant
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"Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes viewers on a four-hour two-night tour of the Black church, 'all the way down to its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace.'" newsday.com/entertainment/tv…
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Fresh track @RobChenHere ✨🎧🎶💜🗝
Just dropped my new song, Love Lockdown, and just in time for Valentine’s Day! Who says you can’t find love during the quarantine?? ❤️(Full song in my bio!) #BluHyku #NewRelease #MusicMonday #hiphop
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How do we dismantle “systems that take necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes”?
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‘For there is always light, If only we’re brave enough to see it If only we’re brave enough to be it’ @TheAmandaGorman
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Congratulations, President @JoeBiden and Vice President @KamalaHarris. Democracy has indeed prevailed, the voices of the people have been heard and we march forward working toward progress for our nation. #InaugurationDay
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"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - MLK Honoring our grandparents who selflessly committed their lives to serving their community. 💜💜💜
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“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society...
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When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” A reminder to be kind to myself 💜
Building and deepening community from the inside out ✨
Collaboration, empathy, and community. Thank you Stephanie Little for sharing your knowledge and experience!
“In the acts of changing our image [or reality] we are changing ourselves, and by changing ourselves in turn we change the world...It is not enough to say no. It is necessary to desire!”
“It’s a fact of life that sometimes you have to search deep inside yourself to feel something for another human being. Empathy is informed by biology, upbringing, society, personal beliefs, and experience...
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which means everyone has unique reasons for the softening or hardening of their hearts. It’s just as important to step back and evaluate why you feel little empathy in some circumstances as why it comes so easily in others.” - Helen Riess, MD
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” WriteOn Community 💜
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