Sonya Renee Taylor: 2021 Collective Impact Action Summit Keynote
Building off of her work in her book The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor discusses key questions about how we view ourselves and each other, how we judge who is worthy of acceptance and justice, and how we can break out of systems that tell us that the only way to survive is to devalue others.
Collective Impact Forum · Sheri Brady, Tara Hardy, Jennifer Splansky Juster, Sonya Renee Taylor
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Show Notes
This episode features a powerful keynote address by author, entrepreneur, poet, and activist Sonya Renee Taylor that was part of the 2021 Collective Impact Convening this past April. Building off of her work in her book The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor discusses key questions about how we view ourselves and each other, how we judge who is worthy of acceptance and justice, and how we can break out of systems that tell us that the only way to survive is to devalue others.
Preceding this talk, poet Tara Hardy shares her poem Buses Stop.
Resources and Footnotes
Video and Transcript of this talk
The Body is Not an Apology
103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
My, My, My, My, My by Tara Hardy
More on Collective Impact
Infographic: What is Collective Impact?
Resource List: Getting Started in Collective Impact
The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found here and is licensed under CC: By 4.0.
The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by Kevin Macleod. Licensed under CC: By.
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