As we approach the end of our first season, we’re bringing you two special guests, Trish Adobea Tchume and Ericka Stallings. In this episode, host Kaytura Felix explores how the bond between these real-life friends elevates their lives and their work and how they redefine leadership to put justice at its center.

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More about Trish Adobea Tchume

Trish Adobea Tchume is a first generation Ghanaian-American and serves as Senior Director of Leadership Research and Practice for the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. In this role, Trish collaborates with other organizations to explore, define, and support leadership and organizational approaches that prefigure a world where all of us can thrive. She is a Brooklynite, a proud auntie, a beach stan, and devotes her volunteer time to cool organizations like the Central Brooklyn Food Coop and to the boards of Change Elemental and the New York Foundation.

More about Ericka Stallings

Ericka Stallings is the Co-Executive Director of the Leadership Learning Community (LLC). LLC is a national organization and network of changemakers, bringing to the center leaders of color and those from historically excluded communities. At LLC she holds spaces for innovations, practices, and systems that are grounded in collective liberation.