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Scenario

When co-leaders navigate racial dynamics in justice work

My co-director and I run a nonprofit focused on racial justice, but we're different races and when conflicts come up between staff members that have racial dimensions, we find ourselves in impossible positions where anything we do or don't do gets interpreted through the lens of our racial identities. We can't figure out how to lead together when our very presence in leadership roles means different things to different people.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people trying to share power discover that their different social positions make shared leadership a political statement that complicates every decision.

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Juana
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