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Volunteering isn't only a personal journey. It can be a shared commitment, a reason to keep learning together, and a way to pass down values not through lectures, but through lived experience.

This week, as one month ends and another begins, I’m holding these two celebrations together: Pride, with its bright banners of inclusion and defiance. Independence Day, with its aspirational promise of liberty and justice for all. Neither is finished and both demand our participation.

Why work isn’t working and what we can collectively do better

For me, anxiety shows up as a pit in the stomach. A tingling at the back of the head. And, if it’s strong enough, silence — the sudden inability to speak.

Juneteenth is a celebration and it is also a truth-telling. It is a reminder that even when the wheels of justice turn, they often do so with excruciating slowness. And it invites us to ask: what truths are still waiting to be named? What freedoms are still being withheld? What stories need to be shared, understood and made part of our collective unconscious?