Sheerine Alemzadeh's guest appearances

Sheerine Alemzadeh

B-Change

Aaron Tanaka

Robbie Samuels

Maria Sirois

Marc Cordon

Marcus Santos

Elmer Pleitez

Woullard Lett

Shirronda Almeida

Joanne Brunn

Penn Loh

Tomas Aguilar

Marcy Goldstein-Gelb

Eben Weitzman

Julian Agyeman

Allentza Michel

OwlTail

Is it healthy for an organization to have leadership centralized in one person — the executive director? Is leadership development “one size fits all”?  Sheerine Alemzadeh and Karla Altmayer turned the conventional model of nonprofit leadership on its head when they co-founded Healing to Action, a Chicago-based nonprofit that engages low wage workers in combatting sexual violence. In this episode, Alemzadeh takes our listeners into her organization’s journey, where they tackled:   - Broadening leadership from one central leader to a co-directorship model.  - Sharing power and leadership with their constituents — survivors of sexual violence.  - Finding new ways to tap these survivors’ unique strengths, recognizing that traditional organizing fails to account for their traumatic experiences. Sheerine recommended two resources:  Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown  https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html  Trauma Stewardship, Laura Lipsky https://traumastewardship.com/laura-van-dernoot-lipsky/

Is it healthy for an organization to have leadership centralized in one person — the executive director? Is leadership development “one size fits all”? Sheerine Alemzadeh and Karla Altmayer turned the conventional model of nonprofit leadership on its head when they co-founded Healing to Action, a Chicago-based nonprofit that engages low wage workers in combatting sexual violence. In this episode, Alemzadeh takes our listeners into her organization’s journey, where they tackled:  - Broadening leadership from one central leader to a co-directorship model.  - Sharing power and leadership with their constituents — survivors of sexual violence.  - Finding new ways to tap these survivors’ unique strengths, recognizing that traditional organizing fails to account for their traumatic experiences. Sheerine recommended two resources: Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown <a href="https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html</a><a href="https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> Trauma Stewardship, Laura Lipsky <a href="https://traumastewardship.com/laura-van-dernoot-lipsky/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://traumastewardship.com/laura-van-dernoot-lipsky/</a>

Sharing Leadership: A Conversation with Sheerine Alemzadeh