Episode 20: Cecilia Conrad - Steward of the MacArthurs Genius Grants, 100 Million Dollars, and Transcendent Empowerment

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-19Cecilia’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  Cecilia’s list