Rethinking Development Podcast
Long-form, personal conversations with international development and humanitarian aid practitioners, thinkers, activists, academics and more. Conversations center on lived experiences and reflections on ethical issues, power dynamics, systemic challenges and lessons learnt. Common themes: redistributing power, working with diverse stakeholders, negotiating partnerships, measuring impact, learning from mistakes, doing no harm, building trust, ensuring accountability, rejecting saviour complexes, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, and much more.
Rethinking Development Podcast
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.