In 2020, the pace of the news was so rapid that we had little time to think, imagine, build, and plan together. As a result, NPQ staff are dedicating the first week of 2021 to do exactly that. And we will do so guided by Cyndi Suarez, our first new editor in chief since our founding in 1999!
To make space for this visioning and planning, our daily newsletters this week will feature a single story. We think you will appreciate the results.
We hope you will join us throughout the year as we report on how the civil sector works, where we can do better, and how we can more effectively address long-term systemic issues of racial, gender, and economic justice.
Today, in addition to announcing Cyndi’s hire, we feature a 2019 article by Cyndi on leadership by women of color that profiles Wilnelia Rivera, who helped Rep. Ayanna Pressley unseat a 10-term white congressman in 2018.
The Nonprofit Quarterly’s board of directors is very pleased to announce it has selected its new editor in chief and co-president in Cynthia (“Cyndi”) Suarez, who assumed the role as of January 1st, joining co-president and publisher Joel Toner. Suarez was selected after a national search and comes with four years of strong, tested leadership in a senior editor role at NPQ.
Suarez’s work focuses on how social change occurs. She has decades of experience working in, and consulting to, nonprofit organizations, social movements, and philanthropy. She has a passion for liberatory practices and specializes in network and platform strategies. She is the author of the celebrated book The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics (2018), as well as numerous articles at NPQ looking at the state of racial and social justice in the sector and beyond. Before coming to NPQ, Suarez was, among other things, executive director at Northeast Action, the first regional political strategy center in the United States. Past consulting clients include the Movement for Black Lives and United We Dream.
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The driving question in Wilnelia Rivera’s work is “What makes women of color successful?”
It is this kind of focus that helped Ayanna Pressley win a Congressional seat with the slogan, “Change Can’t Wait.” Rivera was Pressley’s chief strategist and advisor, and Pressley credits Rivera’s “unique acumen for identifying untapped voters” as the key to her win. Rivera understands that women of color don’t win by doing things the traditional way.
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