This week, Equity Through Action President C.Marie Taylor talks about the challenges of entrenched power in non-profit boards and offers solutions toward resolving conflict, overcoming obstacles, and generating action.

Anthony Shop is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Social Driver and Chairman of the National Digital Roundtable. This week, Anthony helps us make sense of the trends and strategies for brand engagement that crosses our digital divides.

What does it mean to show love in the work of our agencies? What does it mean to nurture those who come after us in the communications field? May Medallada Robinson joins us to demonstrate how personal purpose can lead to professional progress.

This week, we elevate our season one conversation with Natalie Burke that addresses one central question: how does racism harm us all?

We're just a few weeks out from releasing our first episodes of season five of Mission Forward. Until then, we're continuing our tour of past guests in an effort to elevate a few of our favorite conversations to welcome new listeners the best way we know how. This week we bring you Ed Young and Liz Neely in our 2018 conversation live on the Mission Forward stage.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we want to highlight one of our favorite conversations and past episodes featuring Dr. Robert Kelly of Loyola University Maryland.

Carrie Fox and Nimra Haroon review a rich season of lessons from some of our best and brightest communications practitioners in Season Four of Mission Forward.

Dan Buettner joins Carrie to share his exploration of life-nourishing Blue Zones on the release of his latest book, and a career bringing understanding as a National Geographic Explorer.

Rae Oglesby is VP of Communications for UpTogether and she brings rich experience to their work accelerating initiatives in undervalued communities and improving lives.

We welcome one of our own to Mission Forward this week: inclusivity advocate and graphic designer, Eleni Stamoulis. Her voice is welcome counsel ensuring that the projects that we take on at Mission Partners are as inclusive and accessible as possible.

Houston Kraft joins Carrie for a discussion on kindness, the vitamin concept, and the difference between “nice” and “kind” as they reflect on his book, “Deep Kindness.”

This week we welcome Grady Powell, founder of Openfields, a social impact consulting firm committed to helping leaders imagine and implement a more creative and just future. He is also co-founder of Capita, a nonpartisan think tank working to build a better future for children and families.

Greg Galle joins Carrie to talk about his book, “Think Wrong,” and all the ways we can use our skills in communications to challenge the self-preserving nature of the cultures we create.

Democracy Fund’s Najma Roberts joins Carrie Fox to talk about the role professional communicators hold in guiding and demonstrating institutional values to the world.

Tim Hykes is a designer, user interface consultant, and host of the Unconference Podcast. Today he joins Carrie Fox to talk about design as a means of communication and equity.

Ashton Lattimore joins Carrie Fox to talk about her role as Editor-in-Chief at Prism, an independent nonprofit newsroom led by journalists of color.

Nimra Haroon joins Carrie to talk about the key themes that will drive the interviews in Season 4 of Mission Forward as the show turns to assess the power, privilege, and responsibility in the field of communications.

We're a few weeks out from releasing season four, but we wanted to share a bonus episode with you today featuring an awesome communicator in his own right, Timothy Hykes, of the Unconference by Design+Diversity podcast.

This week, we share a review of lessons learned from each of these guests as reflected by hosts Carrie Fox and Natalie S. Burke. If you haven't had the opportunity to listen to these conversations in full, we encourage you to do so, and to share with your communities broadly.

Alicia Bell is director of Media 2070. What started as a research essay detailing the role that media has played in anti-black racism and harm has grown into a free press and a growing consortium of media makers and activists, collectively working toward media reparations.