My friends and I are on a mission to level the playing field in the leadership of the nonprofit sector, and we need your help.
THE PROBLEM
Over tea at a cafe, my friend Karla and I lamented the lack of development opportunities for young professionals of color in the nonprofit sector. We witnessed our friends leave […]
…and other lessons learned from the Kerner Forum.
I just got off the phone with Karla, and it is about 2:30 am her time in Washington, DC on a Monday night. I had to call her because I am/was so tense about the state of our education system. After spending last Friday at the Kerner Forum […]
The 60’s and 70’s were all about the protests and activism. It’s hard not to think of hippies and sit-ins at UC Berkeley’s campus when you think of that era.
Our generation has been faced with redefining our own form of activism, and I think we have found it largely by giving back to our communities. […]
I’ve been thinking about culture incessantly as I have been getting situated in my new role as the site director at the BUILD Peninsula site.
The timing could not have been more appropriate. Over the last three years I’ve spent my summers designing and executing summer business boot camps for our sophomores and juniors with the […]
I’m just now getting a chance to do a recap on my first College Summit workshop, which happened at the end of June. We already know that the CS workshops are phenomenal, and that I highly recommend volunteering at them.
I had a great time co-rap directing with my best friend Karla at our alma mater. […]
I got a sweet note from Cynthia, who is a Summer Search alum and staff member, about my workshop. Check it out below!
Rey,
I did not have a chance to connect with you after your workshop, but I really wanted to say THANK YOU!
You were amazing. I got SOOOO much out of the […]
I had an absolutely fantastic time today with about 50 Summer Search alumni at their annual leadership summit at the Masonic Center in San Francisco. I facilitated a workshop entitled “Me, Inc.: Building Entrepreneurship into your Life,” which led to discussions on entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.
It was great to be in the presence of so […]
This summer I’m transitioning into the site director role at BUILD after three years of proudly serving as the incubator manager. Yes, I’ve known for a while, and we have been making announcements here and there in the BUILD community (during our after-school incubator sessions and a big announcement during the Business Plan Competition back […]
The Gateses (Bill and Melinda, e.g. the third wealthiest family on the entire planet) are at a super geeky tech conference down in Carlsbad, CA, called All Things D. One of my favorite blogs, Gizmodo, (don’t judge me) has covered Melinda Gates’ interview by none other than the wise tech sage himself, Walt Mossberg.
In the […]
That’s the percentage of my class of seniors at BUILD who have been accepted to college (and are going to college, God-willing).
100%!!!
And that statistic is not the only phenomenal fact. This remarkable group of high school seniors has gotten into some great schools like UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, St. Mary’s, Menlo College, SF […]
I just got back from five fun-filled and exciting days in St. Louis, MO, for College Summit’s annual Workshop Staff Training and a day of Rap Director Training.
This year is heralding big changes (improvements, really) to one of my favorite national nonprofit organizations. They got rid of their clunky intra-net system, CSnet, and replaced […]
Karla and I have been racking our brains trying to figure out why the social sector is home to some of the least diversely populated organizations, and, subsequently, what can we do about it? So we have been doing our research to first find out how diversity improves the workforce (in business, government and the […]
College enrollment rates are historically on the rise in the US. Stats from this fascinating book I’m currently reading, Microtrends by Mark J. Penn and Kinney Zalesne:
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 69 percent of students who graudated from high school in 2005 were enrolled in college the following October. That was up […]
I’ve been listening to a great podcast series from the Conversation Network’s Social Innovation Channel, and listened to a keynote by a fascinating changemaker and human rights activist, Van Jones (he is the president and co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) based in Oakland, California).
He stresses the importance of allowing yourself […]
Almost a year ago today, I thought of writing a post with this title because I was driving to work with Karla and had an epiphany. It wasn’t a big huge crazy epiphany.
It was more like a puzzle all falling into place, and all of the pieces were gathered throughout time.
Anyway, the epiphany was that […]
Last month I wrote a post about how I have dedicated my life to serving children and youth, and after thinking about my past experiences and thinking about the Time article, I thought of another fun idea:
Kids have summers off, and most of the time if families don’t have money or resources to educate or […]
There is so much to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving weekend. On Monday night as I was getting ready to leave BUILD, I felt so much love and gratitude for getting to and being blessed to work with my students at BUILD. Above is a picture of our insane college tour last weekend. This […]
