4.1 Racial Equity

Rethinking Development Podcast - A podcast by Rethinking Development Podcast

Uma Mishra-Newberry is a global social justice advocate and women's rights leader. She began her career in the US Army before becoming an educator and community organizer in the nonprofit and development sectors. She's the former Executive Director of Women's March Global and the initiator of and lead facilitator for the Racial Equity Index.  We speak about:community organizingbuilding an intersectional feminist movementbeing in a position of leadershipthe crisis of funding in the women’s movementrejecting hustle culture and toxic work environmentsproblematizing white feminisminitiating the Racial Equity Indexworking as a collectivebeing conscious of our own biases - and much more. She joins us from Geneva, Switzerland.