Leadership, Equity & Action: May Reflections from The Equity Lab What does it mean to lead for equity with care, community, and courage — especially in times of transition? In our latest newsletter, we share powerful moments, partnerships, and practices shaping our collective journey toward justice. This issue features: ✨ Sustainable Leadership in Action: Highlights from "You Good?", our recent LinkedIn Live conversation with Kelli Doss and Mónica Vásquez on building cultures of care, trust, and intentional pause. 🌱 Welcoming Seeding Disruption Cohort X: 25 cross-sector leaders in DC are digging deep, dreaming big, and transforming systems through liberatory leadership. 🧭 Transforming Culture Through Practice: Supporting leaders and teams in weaving equity into their everyday decisions through facilitation, coaching, and strategic advising to transform culture and operations from the inside out. 📍 Nexus in Cleveland: Reflections from the culminating gathering of Cohort IV — a powerful reminder that place, people, and possibility matter in our leadership journeys. 🎙️ Podcast Spotlight: Teach the Babies with Michelle Molitor “The future we dream of is built in community, and it begins when we reclaim the power that’s always been ours.” In a recent episode of Teach the Babies hosted by Dr. David Johns, Michelle joins Caroline Hill of 228 Accelerator to explore how remembering our individual and collective power can reshape the systems we move through. 📖 Read the full newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/eAYHM4Ey #TeachTheBabies #LeadershipForJustice #EquityInAction #TheEquityLab #LiberatoryLeadership #SystemsChange #CollectiveLiberation #Newsletter #CareIsStrategy (fb)

As Policy Consultant at the The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, Vinu Ilakkuvan helps lead efforts to build stronger, more equitable school mental health systems across DC. She also leads POP Health, where she brings a public health lens to systems change—focusing on root causes, community ownership, and policy that works. Explore how Seeding Disruption is cultivating leadership for systemic change through fellows like Vinu: 🔗 https://hubs.la/Q03n0Y2L0 (fb)