every couple years, i have the distinct privilege of co-hosting a pilgrimage with The Refuge, a wonderful community seeking to practice equity alongside and on behalf of housing insecure neighbors in broomsfield, CO. refuge leaders recruit participants from all over the country. over the years, we’ve visited sites in montgomery, selma, and birmingham, AL, as well as atlanta, GA, patronizing black-owned businesses along the way. it is a time of transformative learning about the particularities of the southern freedom movement’s struggle against the forces of inequity.
i am always encouraged hear the ideas participants walk away with for reordering inequitable power dynamics, repairing damage done while inequity was allow to persist, and reimagining ways to be together based on power-with instead of power-over. these new commitments to practicing equity are why we do the work.
here is one participant from our 2023 learning trip thinking about ways to practice equity as the head of manufacturing for a medical device company.
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