Camp Songs + Solitude vs. Isolation + Not Doing It Alone with Akaya Windwood

About this week’s guest: Akaya advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty of the Just Economy Institute, is Lead Advisor at Third Act, and is founder of the New Universal Wisdom and Leadership Institute. She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for ten years, and directs the Thriving Roots Fund.

Akaya received the 2020 Vision Award from Middlebury College, was one of Conscious Company’s 30 World Changing Women of 2018, an Ella Award recipient from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and served on the Alameda County Human Rights Commission. Akaya is deeply committed to working for a fair and equitable global society while infusing a sense of purpose, delight, and wonder into everything we do.

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Akaya’s work:
Website
Third Act
Just Economy Institute
Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times

Things we talked about:
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
Becky Chamber books
Dawn by Octavia Butler

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