Exceptionalizing Amanda Gorman: Who Gets Left Behind?

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'While it may give us hope to elevate one impressive woman to take the stage and applaud ourselves in the name of progress, let’s get to the business of examining our own biases and systems that make us surprised that a young Black woman would excel.'

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, a global feminist organization based in Sierra Leone that developed a Global Resilience Fund to provide small grants of unrestricted funding to girl-led initiatives globally. From the very start, they worked with the disability community to create an inclusive process and also used participatory panels of girls and young women to select their own peers in each region.

It is time for all of us—and those in philanthropy like myself—to double-down on its work and model what it looks like to support movements from an intersectional lens. If we want to build back better, we need healthier and more inclusive systems for young people, especially young people of color, who have been repeatedly marginalized yet are still leading us to a better world.

What if we approached each system that touches young lives through the lens of a girl of color? What if her experience and her dreams were centered in our planning?

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