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Rethinking Development Podcast · Feb 24, 2021 · 47 min

4.1 Racial Equity

Uma Mishra-Newberry is a global social justice advocate and women's rights leader. She began her career in the US Army before becoming an educator and community organizer in the nonprofit and development sectors. She's the former Executive Director of Women's March Global and the initiator of and lead facilitator for the Racial Equity Index. We speak about: community organizing building an intersectional feminist movement being in a position of leadership the crisis of funding in the women’s movement rejecting hustle culture and toxic work environments problematizing white feminism initiating the Racial Equity Index working as a collective being conscious of our own biases - and much more. She joins us from Geneva, Switzerland.

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Uma Mishra-Newberry is a global social justice advocate and women's rights leader. She began her career in the US Army before becoming an educator and community organizer in the nonprofit and development sectors. She's the former Executive Director of Women's March Global and the initiator of and lead facilitator for the Racial Equity Index.  

We speak about:

  • community organizing
  • building an intersectional feminist movement
  • being in a position of leadership
  • the crisis of funding in the women’s movement
  • rejecting hustle culture and toxic work environments
  • problematizing white feminism
  • initiating the Racial Equity Index
  • working as a collective
  • being conscious of our own biases - and much more. 

She joins us from Geneva, Switzerland. 

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