Owning the problem
3 min readNov 28, 2022
“Sometimes you don’t have to be a voice for the voiceless, you just have to pass the microphone.” — ?
When working in the Saving-the-World business, be it social enterprise, nonprofit, or government, there is often a disconnect between those trying to do the saving and those “needing to be saved.”
This paternalistic relationship has led to countless well-intentioned misadventures in policy and…