Spirit, Sand, and Sea

Leadership is, at its core, relational. It is not about authority or control, but about cultivating trust and belonging — the invisible threads that connect people to one another and to a shared purpose. Without those threads, leadership becomes transactional, and transformation becomes superficial. Equity is what strengthens and sustains those connections. It creates the conditions in which real change, personal, organizational, and societal, can take root. People cannot bri

There are places that live in us long after we leave them. For me, the Dominican Republic is one of those places — a landscape of memory, spirit, and return. I’ve spent a lifetime moving between worlds: North and South, land and sea, past and present. Each crossing has taught me that belonging isn’t about where we’re born, but where our soul finds stillness. This is a story about home — and the way we carry it with us. I was born in New York City. When people asked, “Where ar

There have been moments in my career when staying true to my values felt like an act of rebellion. Not because I wanted to defy anyone, but because the systems I worked within were built to reward compliance more than conscience. As a school leader, I often found myself standing in that tension — the invisible intersection between values and expectations. It’s a place that every woman leader eventually finds herself: the crossroads between what we know to be right and what th

Have you ever resisted a part of yourself that’s been trying to emerge for years? That quiet voice that says there’s more to me than this  — but you keep silencing it because life feels too demanding, too practical, too full? For me, that voice was the artist inside me. For decades, I resisted calling myself an artist. Growing up, art was never spoken about as an option. Livelihood meant stability. Success meant following a linear path — study hard, get a good job, and work y

The Life You Didn’t Choose: Resilience There are moments that divide a life into before  and after. Before the diagnosis. Before the...

There are moments in life when the ground beneath you gives way, when all the plans you’ve carefully made scatter like sand in the wind....