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How loss of sight propelled a new path of Equity, Diversity, and Interdependence to create spaces in which reflection and action-oriented dialogue result in transformed communities…
Cardozie Jones, a NYC-based educator, artist, and consultant, and Founder and Lead Facilitator at True North EDI ( facilitating workshops and trainings, coaching and developing teams and leaders, and consulting and supporting systems-level change), joins host Julie Chan in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser.
In this episode:
- Cardozie Jones on what shapes him
- When he was starting to have vision issues
- Multiple surgeries on his eye, eyesight faded
- Starting at school at NYU on 9/11
- Deciding his path
- Believing it must be possible to make a living and feel free
- Moved to Hunter College, and was the only “brown body” in his class and he realized the ‘system” was broken
- A one way ticket to Paris, writing, and why it was a checkpoint
- How to get this life in Paris his life in NYC all the time
- Raising $55k in three months for a theater production, an artistic apex
- Creating True North consulting firm
- Equity, diversion, and inclusion
- Being able to say “no” in working with people you don’t want to, and having meetings about aligning values
- How Jones doesn’t have to say “please need me”
- How people can shape equity where they are working
- Pillars of what’s possible for change
- Giving people the opportunities to be successful, creating a world and spaces for each human being to thrive
