By: Johanan Rivera, C.O.O. Imago Global Grassroots In 2020 the US and the world grieved the barbaric murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and so many more people whose names we will never know. A few weeks ago, the rise of anti-Asian violence captured yet again...
Read the interview write-up here: What qualities/traits do you think that women bring to leadership that men do not? What I have seen within SEWA, because I am fortunate enough to work with diverse women of all classes, is a collective growth way of thinking. I always turn to the words of...
What traits do women bring to leadership that men usually do not? There are three aspects of leadership that women bring to leadership: empathy, pragmatism, and multitasking. Based on what we have seen in the pandemic, women have the ability to be empathetic and understand the human cost of suffering. They understand...
Written by: Isabel Guerrero Last week a group of influential women called for a Marshall Plan for Moms during the first 100 days of the Biden administration, suggesting the creation of a task force to devise and oversee the implementation of such a plan. A Marshall Plan for Moms would include providing...
The extraordinary moment we are living in requires us to build new ways of seeing the world and calls for developing resilience within ourselves, in our communities, and in our organizations.
Written by: Maitreyi Bordia, Daselaine Tinsley & Ibrahim Ali Khan The terms “sustainable” and “inclusive” are being commonly (and often loosely) applied to any positive interventions towards the response and recovery from the pandemic. What does “inclusive recovery” mean? Here we explore a specific type of intervention through social enterprises (SEs) using...
My work with IMAGO as a summer fellow has been a very enriching one. Coming from a developing country and having worked in the public sector has let me experience first-hand what IMAGO calls “the missing middle,” that space, where neither the top-down nor the bottom-up approach can reach that is most...
I was inspired to join IMAGO Global Grassroots when Isabel spoke in one of my classes in the Spring. After a semester of very technical economics and policy content, it was refreshing to hear her perspective on working both at the highest levels of large organisations and closer to the coalface with...
I joined IMAGO on July 1st, 2020, not fully knowing what to expect. I was working with the Patient Care Intervention Center (PCIC) in Houston but given the dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases in the US, the summer fellowship was going to be remote. The pandemic has sent the world on a...
What does it mean to be an IMAGO fellow? For me it meant human proximity, care for people, co-creation and the kind of leadership that I hope to practice one day. It was inspiration, adaptation and personal stories that boost admiration. Going out of my comfort zone, moving from data to people...