The Future Of Nonprofit Leadership & DEI
December 18, 2020 Editor’s Note: During the next 10 days The NonProfit Times will publish commentaries looking to 2021 and beyond from some of the sector’s most accomplished leaders. All of the commentaries are available in The NonProfit Times’ digital edition on this website.
Amidst a global racial reckoning, now is the time to spark a long overdue leadership revolution in civil society. There should be a younger, more racially diverse generation of leaders entering the C-suite, supported by their predecessors, boards, and the philanthropic community.
We must once and for all abandon the notion that there is a shortage of talented, ready, social change leaders of color to meet the sector’s leadership needs. There is no shortage. Rather, there is a lack of accountability and dedicated resources for the unique and systemic challenges that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) leaders face as they work to advance in leader
By Reporter Staff
Reporter Staff
Dorchester’s Tammy Tai is the new Deputy Director of King Boston, the non-profit organization that works to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She serves on the faculty of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice and is an Adjunct Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Raised in New York, Tammy is the first generation of an immigrant family from Jamaica and lives in Dorchester with her three teenage children and spouse.