Sonya Renee Taylor: 2021 Collective Impact Action Summit Keynote

This episode features a powerful keynote address by author, entrepreneur, poet, and activist Sonya Renee Taylor that was part of the 2021 Collective Impact Convening this past April. Building off of her work in her book The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor discusses key questions about how we view ourselves and each other, how we judge who is worthy of acceptance and justice, and how we can break out of systems that tell us that the only way to survive is to devalue others.

Preceding this talk, poet Tara Hardy shares her poem Buses Stop. 

Resources and Footnotes

Video and Transcript of this talk

The Body is Not an Apology

103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

My, My, My, My, My by Tara Hardy

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The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found here and is licensed under CC: By 4.0.

The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by Kevin Macleod. Licensed under CC: By.

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