Episode 20: Cecilia Conrad - Steward of the MacArthurs Genius Grants, 100 Million Dollars, and Transcendent Empowerment
- Author
- Ryan McGranaghan
- Published
- Thu 04 Jun 2020
- Episode Link
- None
Show Notes:
- Privilege brings with it a sense of responsibility (4:00)
- Empowering others - "nurturing, supporting, and uplifting" (5:30)
- “Talent in unexpected locations"
- Levels of impact: individual and systems (7:45)
- Carrying people with you (8:20)
- POSSE Foundation (8:40)
- Compensatory and Distributive Justice (9:00)
- What she tells her students (10:45)
- Most proud of integrating race and gender into economics programs (11:00)
- What we are missing in the discourses of race and gender
- Difficult to reshape pre-conceived notions unless you allow everyone to explore (13:00)
- Interconnectedness of society and systems level thinking (14:00)
- A must read - Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Becoming more comfortable with complexity and uncertainty - Santa Fe Institute guidance during COVID-19
- Cecilia’s message during COVID-19 (15:00)
- The Top 100 from 100&Change Respond to COVID-19 (16:30)
- “We don’t have the luxury of backing away from challenges to focus on a single one” (18:30)
- MacArthur Fellows Program (19:00)
- Characteristics of fellows (24:30)
- Howard Gardner “fruitful asynchrony” and his book Creating Minds (26:00)
- Role of poetry in Cecilia’s life (27:50)
- Her published poem “Apathy"
- The Poetry Foundation (29:15)
- The On Being Project (30:00)
- Finding hope and despair right now (31:00)
- Second-line show for healthcare workers (32:15)
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series
