45. Women Run the Show with Peggy Nagae

06/25/20 • 19 min

This episode of Organize Your Butterflies features a vibrant and thought provoking conversation between Alejandra Y. Castillo, CEO, YWCA and Peggy Nagae, Senior Consultant at White Men as Full Diversity Partners and the co-chair of the Diversity Task Force for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Topics discussed include: the profound legacy of the AAPI community in the United States, the significance of COVID-19 and exclusionary narratives centered in racism, and how women’s leadership styles are the most successful in times of crisis. Together we can build a better, more just, and fair world! For more information on Peggy and her work, check out wmfdp.com.

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44. Discussing Philanthropy: The Only Way Up is Forward with Nisha Patel

Join Nisha Patel, who is an Independent Consultant working with individual donors and community foundations on the philanthropic side, and has an affiliation as a Senior Fellow at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and Alejandra Y. Castillo, CEO of YWCA USA as they discuss the massive impact that COVID-19 is having on the nonprofit sector, and what the response, recovery, and re-imagination of the sector looks like as we begin to re-open. They also discuss the ways in which philanthropy is building new paradigms, the importance of trust building within philanthropy, and how reimagining what the philanthropic sector looks like is the only option forward. To learn more about Nisha and her philanthropic endeavors, check out her website: nishapatel.org!

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46. Centering Black Transwomxn in the Racial Justice Movement with Elle Hearns

This episode of Organize Your Butterflies features a moving conversation between Elle Hearns, the Founder of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) and Alejandra Y. Castillo, CEO of YWCA USA. In the one year since founding the MPJI, Elle has formally created a space for Black transwomxn to find community, resources, and total celebration of their identity. Honoring the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson herself is something that Elle has found through her career as an organizer and a tradition she is proud to carry forward. The YWCA network is proud to stand in collaborative solidarity with MPJI to elevate the voices of Black transwomxn! For more information, be sure to follow Elle and the Marsha P. Johnson institute on Instagram @soulfreedreams and @mpjinstitute (respectively).