Episode 4
Radical Energy & Authentic Leadership with Dr. Monique Liston
Dr. Monique Liston is authentic, transparent and real. She discusses growing up in what’s considered the most nationally infamous ZIP code 53206, confirmation bias, measuring what matters and more. As the founder of Ubuntu Research and Evaluation, Dr. Liston highlights the importance of research-based accountability to create an equitable world.
Dr. Liston further spotlights the burden of student loans, disproportionately owed by Black women more than any other race, through the movement #LoanLiberation.
Tune in to hear Dr. Liston speak about her work as a “warrior scholar and joyful militant.” This can’t-miss episode is filled with insight and authenticity!
Highlights:
04:39 - The first one is my mama, my mama made no excuse for the way in which a black girl should show up in the world. She should understand herself as bold.
12:22 - For me that narrative change, that narrative shift, that let's actually have the people speak to their experiences instead of us telling us about them.
14:21 - I realize that data, science, research have been so white dominated that the language of data was racist and we don't even realize it.
32:42 - I wish I could say that like, I integrated things but that's not true it's just I never been without these things.
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Monique Liston - Founder, Joyful Militant and Chief Strategist at Ubuntu Research and Evaluation (Milwaukee). Powered by a collective of unapologetic Black women, femmes, and non-binary people working as transdisciplinary strategist committed to resistance against anti-blackness.
