She the People with Aimee Allison, a new podcast from Design Observer

For too long, America’s political system and cultural power have been built to exclude women of color. Today, as we stand on the brink of a historic moment with our first Black woman presidential nominee, She the People explores how this long-overdue transformation is not only possible but essential for creating a nation where everyone truly belongs.

Vice President Kamala Harris, a Jamaican-Indian American woman, is now the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. She is the first woman of color to lead a major American party ticket and may become the first woman of color to lead the United States.

While her achievement is unprecedented… she stands on top of a foundation forged by countless women before her.

Let’s meet them.

For the next few weeks, I’m teaming up with my sisters at Design Observer for a new podcast that aims to dig deeper into the power of our multiracial democracy – led by women of color. On She the People with Aimee Allison, we’ll meet Black, Latina, Asian American Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and Native women leaders, strategists, thinkers, and artists who will help us make meaning for the moment. We’ll ask the questions everyone must consider when defining our nation’s future.

Questions like:

• How do we return humanity to those who have suffered under the system?
• How do we build coalitions?
• How do we honor complex identities?
• How do we break through institutions purposefully built/designed to exclude?
• What is leadership now?

I saw this vision years ago when I organized the first presidential forum for women of color in Houston, Texas, in 2019 with then-candidate Kamala Harris and seven other presidential hopefuls. Back then, it was stretching the American imagination that women of color could be at the top of the ticket, or that as voters, organizers, and movement leaders, would be poised to lead the country into a new political and cultural era.

But look at us now.

Join us — whether you’re an advocate, activist, ally, or just a person who wants a better world — you are most welcome. In fact, your presence is required if we’re going to create a democracy that works for everyone.

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