Building a thriving community in Winston-Salem

Unsung Stewards

Jul 19 2024 | 00:28:20

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Show Notes

Season 4 of the Unsung Stewards podcast kicks off with Kellie Easton, President and CEO of Action4Equity, an organization working to transform the education system in her hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In Episode 1, Kellie starts off by grounding us in Action4Equity’s whole-school, whole-community, whole-child approach, demonstrating the connection to the other vital conditions, and how we can do systems change work at multiple levels so that everyone can thrive—in Winston-Salem and beyond. Our conversation with Kellie reveals an approach that is deeply rooted in racial justice and strong shared stewardship, heard in her call to, “build a table that's big enough and long enough for everyone to have a seat.”

Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] All perspectives matter. However, what unifies us is a shared understanding and a shared vision of what it is that we seek to accomplish. And once you understand that, and once this is the shared vision, now you can go back to your unique perspective and then identify what do I bring to the table? And I like to say that it's important to build a table that's big enough and long enough for everyone to have a seat. And we all may not sit there at the same time, and that's okay. But let's set the table and have people who are going to maintain that table and make sure that everyone is able to contribute.

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