Marisol Bello

Center that Desperately Needs Change The power dynamics are clearly top-heavy, and the organizational leadership consists of tightly knit personal relationships. There is no strategic direction in their programmatic work, and lacks greatly in leadership development/skill utilization of its, (particularly its younger), staff. There have been multiple attempts to ?realign? or restructure their ?business model? to address this, resulting in a pattern of workers- (a pattern disproportionately affecting women of color)- being laid-off or transitioned out, with little cause/transparency. There is no prioritization or shared understanding of racial or gender justice, and this has resulted in a number of internal and external exploitations, tensions, and fallouts.