Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute
Welcome to Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute, where we explore, define, and dream out loud about capacity building as an act of world building. In each episode, we explore insights, strategies, and transformative practices that empower individuals and organizations to create resilient, healing-centered environments. Join us to discover how capacity building can equip your team and community to thrive in the face of today’s challenges—and to co-create the impactful future you envision.
Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute
Latest Episodes
S2 EP7: Trauma, Harm, and Society: Healing Solutions for a Unified Future with Tracey Lenhardt, Lori Glazebrook, and Lisette Torres-Gerald
In this episode, Acosta Institute Fellows Tracey Danielle Lenhardt, Lori Glazebrook, and Lisette Torres explore how trauma, systemic harm, captivity culture, and institutional violence shape bodies, identities, and communities. Drawing from the...
S2 EP6: Healing-Centered Leadership & Inner Work with Aubrey Valencia, Crissy Mombela, and Tami Farber
In this episode of Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute, Acosta Institute Fellows Aubrey Valencia, Crissy Mombela, and Tami Farber explore the inner work required to practice healing-centered leadership with integrity. Drawing f...
S2 EP5: Coalition Building & Social Futures with Dorit Cypis & Michael Doyle
In this episode of Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute, Acosta Institute Fellows Dorit Cypis and Michael Doyle explore what it takes to build generative coalitions across difference. Drawing from Dorit’s work as a visual artist...
S2 EP4: AI, Purpose, and the Future of Leadership with H.L. Ray, and Rachel Jean Davis
In this episode of Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute, Acosta Institute Fellows Celeste Barretto Milligan, H.L. Ray, and Rachel Jean Davis explore the future of leadership in a time of artificial intelligence, accelerating tec...
S2 EP3: Freedom Dreaming: Fellows on Healing, Community, and the Worlds We’re Building
In this third episode of Season Two of Capacity Building, Dr. Angel Acosta is joined by fellows, Ei Ei Samai, Shaina Glass, Darnese Y. Daniels, and Christian von Tippelskirch, from the second cohort of the Acosta Institute Fellowship f...