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Discover the power of hope and resilience in the pursuit of social justice with Amanda M. Navarro, executive director of Convergence Partnership. In our latest episode of The Measure, Amanda shares insights on scaling deep for transformative impact and how the partnership's strategic shift to centering racial justice is empowering grassroots movements.

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public. Through her writing, music, and podcasts, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. Her work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation in support of Black liberation, her love of Octavia E. Butler and visionary fiction, and her work as a doula. She is the author and editor of several published texts.

Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA, is a board-certified infectious diseases physician and a medical epidemiologist. She began her public health career in 1998 as a member of the CDC’s elite Epidemic Intelligence Service. She has served as a foreign diplomat in the Caribbean, an academic researcher, and the former chief medical officer for the DC Medicaid program. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Health Literacy and an Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow. She is the founder and CEO of Grapevine Health.

In this episode of The Measure, Chantel Rush Tebbe, Managing Director of the American Cities Program at the Kresge Foundation, shares insights on navigating power dynamics, the importance of community-driven solutions, and her personal journey shaped by familial experiences, illustrating the complex interplay between place, race, and systems change.

On today’s episode of The Measure, we learn from Gerri Spilka, Equal Measure’s founding director and past president. As we celebrate 40 years as an organization, Gerri takes us to the beginnings of the organization and a nascent evaluation field. 

Learn more about Clarence E. Anthony, CEO and Executive Director of the National League of Cities (NLC), and how America's cities, towns, and villages continue to build toward equity-driven change.