Our Leadership
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Right from the beginning, we were committed to building a leadership structure that reflected the equitable ethos of the Civil Rights movement:
one where power is shared and everyday people have a place
From the ex-slaves who made the Underground Railroad successful to sit-in demonstrators, from AIDS activists to the 26 million Americans who took to the streets in 2020, the people on the ground are the ones who have made our every step toward a "For All" society possible. The kind of board where Mary Moore, our namesake, and all the other everyday people thought to be unremarkable but were anything but - are welcomed, recognized and celebrated.
One that's Elevated by the power of ordinary gifts.
From This Land Is Your Land:
"Recognize that there are no extraordinary gifts; just ordinary gifts used for extraordinary purposes. Gandhi used the law, Martin, the pulpit, and Mother Teresa, service. Walraven van Hall, who funded the Dutch resistance during WWII, used banking and accounting to change the world. Bob Dylan used a guitar. Althea Gibson, a tennis racket. William Moore walked thousands of miles hand-delivering letters advocating racial equality to public officials. And Stanley and Madelyn Dunham changed the world by taking on the most ordinary of jobs – raising children – in their case, a grandson who would become President of the United States; Barack Obama."
"Recognize that there are no extraordinary gifts; just ordinary gifts used for extraordinary purposes. Gandhi used the law, Martin, the pulpit, and Mother Teresa, service. Walraven van Hall, who funded the Dutch resistance during WWII, used banking and accounting to change the world. Bob Dylan used a guitar. Althea Gibson, a tennis racket. William Moore walked thousands of miles hand-delivering letters advocating racial equality to public officials. And Stanley and Madelyn Dunham changed the world by taking on the most ordinary of jobs – raising children – in their case, a grandson who would become President of the United States; Barack Obama."
one that's Committed to honoring diversity, advancing humanity, and making democracy real.
From Join or Die: A Film About Why You Should Join a Club. And Why the Fate of America Depends On It:
"Hope is in us to imagine community differently. It’s not about abstract concepts of social capital. It’s on the ground, close to the ground, that if the polity is going to be saved, we have to imagine being community together differently. We have to figure out how to be in community differently, and that’s going to require us to take risks. It’s going to require us to fail. But most important it’s going to require us to love ourselves to a different way of being together."
- Eddie Glaude, Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
"Hope is in us to imagine community differently. It’s not about abstract concepts of social capital. It’s on the ground, close to the ground, that if the polity is going to be saved, we have to imagine being community together differently. We have to figure out how to be in community differently, and that’s going to require us to take risks. It’s going to require us to fail. But most important it’s going to require us to love ourselves to a different way of being together."
- Eddie Glaude, Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
