Learning Together. Building Community.

What happens when we live a lie for generations? What does it do to us when we pretend we are better than others? What happens to us when...

Black history is not just some polite tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. during February. Black history is our history, American history....

I recently watched “Strange Fruit,” the Billie Holiday song with all the images of the lynchings. It was horrifying—both on the side of...

We’ve been catching up on old episodes of The Unicorn and the one we watched last night profoundly impressed me. This was episode 3...

With a divisive election year, a nation polarized and public discourse that has disintegrated into contention, we are definitely facing...

Interview with Mary Li Mary Li is the director of the Multnomah Idea Lab (MIL), a learning lab within the Multnomah County government...

Interview with Ona Porter Ona Porter believes in people: if you give them the right tools, they’ll thrive. She’s been an advocate and an...

Interview with Sharon Gary-Smith When I sit down and listen to the stories of Black women and Black men—not out of defensiveness—but...

Another theme that is emerging from the interviews on this blog is Justice. We are accustomed to thinking of justice in punitive terms—a...

Interview with Micah McCarty Micah has an incredible story. From growing up away from the Makah Indian Reservation and nearly dropping...

Interview with Katherine Deumling Katherine has an incredible perspective on prosperity, at both the society level and the individual...