The Structure of Inequity and Racism in the US
Fig 1. Core structure in the US This is the central feedback loop for families in the US. We can...
A Warning from Madeleine Albright
One of my book groups recently read Madeliene Albright’s book, Fascism: A Warning. It was published in 2018, though much...
Respect – What We Mean
Vices such as boastfulness, cruelty, vulgarity, spitefulness, pettiness, dishonesty, excessive ambition, violence, and/or greed, lead me to respect a person...
Surprise, surprise
The election was (partly) about money
Educated enough to be comfortable. Comfortable enough to care more about decency than money. I was as surprised as anyone...
Laws and Practices –
Unequal Advantages
In a recent meeting held by SURJ-Boston (Stand Up for Racial Justice) and the Boston Anti-Racism Knapsack group, we talked about all the laws...
Incarceration & Health – Part IV Profits and Investment
Systems thinking tools focus on cause and effect relationships that together drive the behavior of things we care about over...
Incarceration & Health – Part III The Racial Divide
This blog is part three in a several part series on Incarceration & Health. Here are links to the two...
Incarceration & Health – Part II Families Repeating Patterns
In February 2016, at the request of the Minnesota Dept. of Health, a diverse group of about 30 people met...
Incarceration & Health – Part I
In February 2016, I traveled with some ReThink Health colleagues to St. Paul Minnesota where Jeanne Ayer, the Assistant Commissioner of the...