Show Notes: 

• Privilege brings with it a sense of responsibility (4:00) 
• Empowering others - "nurturing, supporting, and uplifting" (5:30) 
  • “Talent in unexpected locations" 
• Levels of impact: individual and systems (7:45) 
• Carrying people with you (8:20) 
• POSSE Foundation (8:40) 
• Compensatory and Distributive Justice (9:00) 
• What she tells her students (10:45) 
• Most proud of integrating race and gender into economics programs (11:00) 
  • What we are missing in the discourses of race and gender 
• Difficult to reshape pre-conceived notions unless you allow everyone to explore (13:00) 
• Interconnectedness of society and systems level thinking (14:00) 
  • A must read - Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows 
  • Becoming more comfortable with complexity and uncertainty - Santa Fe Institute guidance during COVID-19
• Cecilia’s message during COVID-19 (15:00) 
• The Top 100 from 100&Change Respond to COVID-19 (16:30) 
• “We don’t have the luxury of backing away from challenges to focus on a single one” (18:30) 
• MacArthur Fellows Program (19:00) 
  • Characteristics of fellows (24:30) 
  • Howard Gardner “fruitful asynchrony” and his book Creating Minds (26:00) 
• Role of poetry in Cecilia’s life (27:50) 
  • Her published poem “Apathy" 
• The Poetry Foundation (29:15) 
• The On Being Project (30:00) 
• Finding hope and despair right now (31:00) 
• Second-line show for healthcare workers (32:15) 
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  
  • Cecilia’s list