Seeking Justice and Allyship after Juneteenth: Time to see this as our collective story
Reflections on our shared history and fighting for equality.
Traveling together.
Yesterday I made another connection in New England, a fellow small business owner and consultant “doing the work.” Founder Yvonne Alston and I do different things yet quickly found common ground. We discussed our why — reasons to leave decades of “success” in corporate America to go out on our own. We talked about purpose. About similar transformative trips to water 2 years apart. How both of us had epiphanies stepping away from work, sitting with ourselves.
Before we hung up, we briefly touched on Juneteenth. We talked about the importance of educating our kids on their history. Yvonne spoke about a potential visit to the Mystic Aquarium and the Amistad which jogged the memory of the East coast girl inside me.
Wrapping up, I was struck by how hard and beautiful and strange the past 2 years were. Apart, yet alongside each other, so many of us steered toward the same horizon, focused on an equitable future.
Grateful for the connection and the prompt, I was ready to dive deeper.
