Becoming the Vision is back!

This season, we’re Dreaming Forward—reflecting on our lineages and transforming them into legacies of freedom and justice for all.

In this episode, the show’s producer, Zak Rosen, turns the mic on our hosts, asking the same question they’ve posed to so many others: What are you meditating on in this work of collective liberation?

In our conversation, Chera channels the audacity of her grandmother—who, with steadfast faith in better days ahead, left behind a treasured pair of boots for the next little girl who might need them, as her family sought new opportunities in the segregated South.

Trinel shares his practice of return—to self, to purpose—speaking on the reclamation of his personal magic as a daily act of vulnerability: risking embarrassment in service of connection, and daring visibility for the chance to be truly seen. 

We learn that Freedom Dreams in Philanthropy emerged from and is grounded in Chera’s deeper exploration of education for liberation, further catalyzed by her lived experience in philanthropy and her curiosity about how other leaders of color were seeing and making possibilities from where they stood. This resonates with Trinel’s interest in how we turn these possibilities into practice: creating new ways of seeing, being, and doing, that open pathways for systems level-change

This conversation makes clear that freedom dreaming is both lineage and living practice—a way of holding possibility and making it real through daily acts of dreaming, boldness, and agency.

As we Dream Forward this season, we invite you to reflect on the stories, people, and histories that shaped you—and to consider how they can be seeds of liberation for yourself and others.

Join us for this intimate conversation as we trace the roots of our work and practice the futures we’re imagining together.

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