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An Adinkra symbol —Nkonsonkonson which is the symbol for human relations, interconnectedness, and reciprocity.

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I saw T model community, deep relationship building, and what it meant to be, in the words of Grace Lee Boggs, “…more human human…” with each other. He embodied Nkonsonkonson and I could not be more grateful for what he has gifted us.

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Embrace vulnerability and messiness

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It doesn’t have to be SO complicated. We are talking about love.

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Remembering where i come from

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Deep human connections to build our community and grow our spirit.

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Be that person I didn't have as a kid and that person who could have helped my parents navigate the systems here in the States.

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Loving all openly so often and unreservedly that it becomes ordinary

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I want to take the time to listen with compassion, embrace joyful learning, and create loving spaces.

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I want to take the time to listen with compassion, embrace joyful learning, and create loving spaces.

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Nourishing co-creation

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continue to always learn/unlearn and put it into daily practice personally/professionally however i can

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May all people become their full selves

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Being in right relationship with others

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Community Care
JOY
LOVE
Mindfulness
Our babies are at the center of every discussion
Good/Better Communication
Vunerability
Healing
Safety
Courage

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community care without exchanges. radical imagining of better futures.

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Approaching myself and others with care, compassion, and space to grow from mistakes and harms caused.

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Really Listening when young people speak (inviting thru questions if they're silent).

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Really Listening when young people speak (inviting thru questions if they're silent).

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Lightness and love

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I am practicing softness, and embracing softness as a strength

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Honor and include culture and experience of students

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Recentering nature in our technology

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I commit to continue to help recognize and highlight BIPOC voices, ideas and perspectives.

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To find ways of confronting and transforming the long histories of racial violence that continue to structure our relationships and ways of being

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Actually seeing people--more than that single story--and their struggles and to have complete compassion despite our differences. To see and feel the brother/sisterhood of humanity 100% of the time!

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Centering the joy and strength of our amazing young people

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Centering the joy and strength of our amazing young people

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collective care and radical self-acceptance as daily practice. practice without pursuit of perfection.

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collective care and radical self-acceptance as daily practice. practice without pursuit of perfection.

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Making space for others’ joy: students’, colleagues’, my own, those in my spheres.
Co-authoring joy and mirth, humor and play.

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Holding love at the center of the work.

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radical vulnerability and self care

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Really listening to, honoring and and being with those I am interacting with.

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community care.. especially opportunities for joy and healing communally

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community care.. especially opportunities for joy and healing communally

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Collectively dreaming of the world we’ll win

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Decolonization to find myself and other uninterrupted by colonization. Heal myself and help others heal through liberation. YEBO ✊🏽

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Light in darkness so that they are seen amongst the margins daily

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Light in darkness so that they are seen amongst the margins daily

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Humility

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Doing my best to become a thoughtful active bystander when situations of harm arise

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Radical community love and self-acceptance

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Holding space for grief/ processing mundane crisis/violence/ precarity

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Listening and openness

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Encouraging radical imagination through care

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Encouraging radical imagination through care

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Preparing our students for the worlds we may live in

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Open, evolving, critically aware of self and others, centering our humanity and potential, be grounded light

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I want to always remember to listen with an open mind recognizing that everyone comes to a conversation with their own issues and/or trauma.

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I want to always remember to listen with an open mind recognizing that everyone comes to a conversation with their own issues and/or trauma.

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Creativity and using art for liberation!

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Creativity and using art for liberation!

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Stay close to the fire and stay ceremonially grounded Aho

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Stay close to the fire and stay ceremonially grounded Aho

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Radical love

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I always have the capacity to love another being’s humanity.

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Humanize Space in Service of Collective Liberation 

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Humanize Space in Service of Collective Liberation 

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i'm trying to remember that my anger at injustice needs to be accompanied by a love for humanity - and that my liberation is tied up in that of others

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Community care and stillness

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Love

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be fluid like waves, be bold like trees

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I want to continue to do my best to practice patience and love with boundaries. Thinking deeply about what transformative justice looks, feels, sounds like in my daily life and I recognize that I’ll always be learning.

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Deep honest real empathetic communication

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Deep honest real empathetic communication

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Thomas was always so present in the moment, leading with his humanity and with love. Love you, Thomas.

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Harm reduction, active listening and love hard

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Committed integrity