This virtual webinar, Ericka Stallings and Trish Adobea Tchume explored how the current moment demands that we build our capacity for acting in community and with solidarity. This is not a time well served by going it alone. In this conversation, we explored ways to honor our collective humanity by adopting practices and mindsets that support collaborative action and care. In the Leadership and Race report, we discussed making a “call to each other” by moving away from “heroic leadership” models and towards collective and networked leadership that strengthens interdependence rather than isolation.

 Leadership rooted in connection, care, and reciprocity is how we build resilient, liberatory communities. Taking time to reflect on who we turn to for help and who we can support grounds us in interdependence. Identifying practices, tools, and sources of inspiration and joy reminds us that leadership isn’t just about action. It’s about sustaining ourselves and each other for the long haul. Change work is human work, and staying connected to purpose, play, and care is essential to leading towards liberation.

Trish Adobea Tchume is a first-generation Ghanaian-American, a social and racial justice advocate, facilitator, and trainer. She is the Vice President of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Trish collaborates with other organizations to explore, define, and support leadership and organizational approaches that prefigure a world where all of us can thrive. Trish is a Brooklynite, a proud auntie, a beach stan, and devotes her volunteer time to cool projects like the Central Brooklyn Food Coop and the boards of Change Elemental and the New York Foundation.