New Racecar Report in honor of my birthday today! I’m a couple of chapters into The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, by Ellen D. Wu. Ever wondered why the infamously racist Chinese Exclusion Act was finally repealed in 1943, aka less than 30 years before I was born, […]
My friends, I look at what so many of you are doing to change the world, and I judge myself against you. Usually harshly. I’m not doing enough, I’m not having enough impact, I’m not working hard enough. Maybe you do the same. I don’t want to contribute to that. Lately I can’t keep up […]
“Tell me the story of your life,” Grampa would say with a smile as he settled Tiny Me snugly next to him on the sofa. The question was a beloved tradition, going back to my earliest memories; and a shared joke, since we both knew that my handful of years didn’t make much of a […]
Whenever I heard the phrase “grandfathered in,” this photo was always what I imagined: the upstairs unit of the middle Cape Cod beach cottage that was my family’s rented little slice of heaven for two weeks every summer. I thought it just meant situations where the rules had changed but things that had been approved […]
Earlier this week was Indigenous Peoples’ Day, formerly known as Columbus Day. But even though that “holiday” is over, guess what? Every single day, I’m still living and working on lands stolen from the Tongva people. So it seemed only appropriate to continue listening to the audiobook of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United […]
If you like futzing around with your phone as much as I do, you’ll love this: last week, the entire SCG team learned from experts Alan Kwok and Ana-Marie Jones how to spend a couple hours turning our smartphones into powerful tools for emergency preparedness… or as Ana-Marie calls it, “how to walk this world […]
Here are my closing remarks from the September 2019 Southern California Grantmakers “Foresight Philanthropy” conference on using the tools of futurism in philanthropy: Hi everyone! I know it’s been a very long day of learning. I’m just here to take one final moment to thank our brilliant panelists – and everyone who shared their insight […]
For the past two years, I’ve been proud to serve on the board of OCCORD. Our organization is going through a very rough time of transition, which I hope will ultimately be a time of transformation as our open letter says. If that’s to be, I believe the board will need to lead the way […]
WOW before HOW is my new mantra for nonprofit communications. Oftentimes, I think that we nice polite well-meaning nonprofit marketing folks tend to be afraid that our audiences will think we’re bragging or sensationalizing. So we try to avoid that scary risk by explaining the details of our work… and only then do we allow […]
Hi friends, thought I’d try something new. You know I always try to share my learning with you from the books and conferences that are major milestones in my racial justice journey — but there are also so many smaller steps along the way, so many valuable articles and resources that help me try to […]