Episode #6 in which Yodit Mesfin Johnson talks about the power of reimagining everyday systems via collective care.Yodit Mesfin Johnson is a Black momma, a visionary strategist and a social justice advocate based in Southeast Michigan. She serves as president and CEO of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW), a Michigan-based movement support organization that offers transformative consulting, back-office support and leadership development programs to nonprofits and social change leaders.A serial social entrepreneur, Yodit co-founded FutureRoot, a woman owned and community-led planning & design collective working at the intersections of race, place, culture and histories. She is also the founder of Black Men Read, a storytelling program that centers the experiences and stories of the African Diaspora for elementary-aged students in her community.With over 30 years working at the intersections of racial and economic justice for women/femme and BIPOC communities, Yodit thrives in building community around the questions that matter most: how can we unlock the potential and possibility needed to radically transform our communities, see the ecosystem and the whole, and design and act in ways that bend the long arc of history towards balance and harmony?Yodit employs various media—including poetry, podcasting, writing, and storytelling—as tools in her organizing and activism. She dreams of a world where our children's grandchildren no longer live in constructed identities or borders.You can contact Yodit directly at http://www.new.org/