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On Mobilizing Outrage

On a recent webinar, as the pandemic sealed us off in corners of bedrooms and makeshift home offices, the check-in question of the day wa...

Bina M Patel

"When you leave here, tell them what you saw here and the hearts of our people"

In 1997, I lived in Palestine. It is where I learned first hand about rubber bullets, about the militarization of so-called "serve and pr...

Bina M Patel

My job.

My j-o-b is to do anti-racism work, to facilitate transformation in people and the systems in which they work. It is a weird job to have,...

Bina M Patel

"All of a Sudden"

All of a sudden - overnight, in an instant, day by day, we changed. The pandemic hit and we have mobilized. We are shifting some rules of...

Bina M Patel

Purpose First

#purposefirst Purpose is not about your passion. Purpose is about how you are in relationship to the collective, your role in the bigger...

Bina M Patel

Comfort or Progress? Keynote Video

I was the keynote speaker at the Agora Theatre for the Cleveland Neighborhood Progress. This keynote asked us to consider the ways in whi...

Bina M Patel

Permission or Purpose?

Taking action to be more inclusive, just, and to create belonging does not require permission (or for that matter forgiveness, sorry Grac...

Bina M Patel

Resistance to Racial Equity Progress

Let's explore one of the most challenging parts of organizational change towards the active practice of racial equity. Resistors. There a...

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Waiting for the "right time"

"We are considering if we want to bring racial equity into our strategic plan." "We have created a committee to explore if equity should ...

Bina M Patel

Three Weapons of White Supremacy

Speed. Silence. Shame. White supremacy is designed to thrive and flourish on speed, silence, and shame. An essential part of racial equit...

Bina M Patel

More Healers, Fewer Leaders

We need more healers, fewer “leaders” in our racial equity, justice, and belonging work. We need more people willing to heal disease of “...

Bina M Patel

Fighting Fatigue in Racial Equity & DEI work

There are lots of tired folks out there. Many people of colors are exhausted by the ongoing racism, bias, diminishment and marginalizatio...

Bina M Patel

Deflective Language: Racial Equity

The more deeply I engage in the work of advancing racial equity, the more often I see the myriad of ways the real work is deflected, lost...

Bina M Patel

Let's also be good humans.

During a client conversation about outcomes and deliverables for organizational racial equity work, we had generated quite a list of "cha...

Bina M Patel

Design for Progress

Here is a short excerpt from a recent keynote I gave at the end of 2018. With community leaders from around the US, we explored how we m...

Bina M Patel

The journey to serve the collective good

My Dad often asked me as I grew up: are you helping people? Among his many amazing sayings that have a lasting impact on me, this one se...

Bina M Patel

Equity & Empowerment - Lessons from Bronzeville

Saathi has been in several years of partnerships and work to design a practice that empowers residents build solutions in new ways. It ha...

Bina M Patel

From Principles to Practice -Environmental Grant-makers Association

I'm in Seattle with the Environmental Grantmakers Association to coach philanthropic leaders on how to advance racial equity. Our session...

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