Kalisha Dessources
Observer
Science Haven
I think it goes back to sort of just narratives and dialogue in the field of just social justice and community change in general around this savior mentality of how much can I go in and really just change or impact the community? I think especially how much can I do so as an outsider of that community, and there are so many different levels to what it means to be an insider or an outsider of a community, right? I think you can in many ways, be bold, you can be somewhere on that continuum. So I know for myself even though I looked more like the people in the room as a black woman, I was not from the Dwight neighborhood or Dwight community like Rick was, for example. So it's a lot about thinking about how much the change has to come from within, how much is that nexus of control really, in that organizing body of black women in the Dwight community who for the past decade has been pulling together these events, have been doing work in the community, and how much can actually be impacted by a Yale or whatever organization, or even a really great community or a really great outside activist who has just good goals and intentions in mind,