Ashindi Maxton's guest appearances

Ashindi Maxton

The Great Battlefield

Unstoppable

Dreaming in Color

Sarah Williams

Sally Kohn

Joan Blades

Steven Petrow

Lawrence Lessig

Bernie Sanders

Pete Buttigieg

Mitch Landrieu

Ben Miller

Greg Miller

Matt Stoller

Mitch McConnell

Steve Anderson

Matt Hodges

Sarah Baker

OwlTail

Show descriptionWelcome to Dreaming in Color, a show that provides a platform for BIPOC social change leaders to candidly share how their lived experiences (personal and professional) have prepared them to lead their work and drive the impact we all seek. In this episode, our guest is Ashindi Maxton. She is a Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Donors of Color Network, an organization that offers a philanthropic and political home for high-net-worth donors of color committed to building power for and across communities of color. From racial equity and voting rights to climate justice and income inequality, Ashindi has had her finger on the pulse of where and importantly how we need to do and be better. Join in as we speak with Ashindi on bringing community and confidence to her work, leaning into healing and collective efforts, and demanding accountability and action.Jump straight into:(00:21) - Introducing Ashindi Maxton: Co-Founder of the Donors of Color Network and a truly brilliant mind.(01:47) - Ashindi pulls inspiration from a poem by Eve Ewing, Buddhism, and the Twitterverse.(06:32) - The ability to heal: Takeaways from Ashindi’s early path in politics.(10:19) - “I know how this reality trickles down”: Experiences and principles that have driven Ashindi’s career.(16:28) - ”Walk into the place like you own it”: On community, a sense of belonging in the social sector and the effectiveness of the Climate Justice Funders Pledge.(23:24) - A battle of imagination: Family stories and dystopian fictions that bring lessons on how to achieve victories for social justice. (32:46) - New suns and surviving the end of the world.Episode resourcesConnect with Ashindi Maxton through LinkedIn and InstagramLearn more about Donors of Color Network including the Climate Justice Funders PledgeCheck out some of the written works by Octavia E. ButlerRead Electric Arches by Eve L. EwingRead Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat HanhRead Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan KozolRead Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Words by Adrienne Maree Brown and listen to the podcast How to Survive the End of the World hosted by Adrienne and her sister Autumn BrownLearn more about Color of ChangeThank you for listening to Dreaming in Color a Bridgespan supported StudioPod production. Nicole Genova is the Show Coordinator and Teresa Buchanan is the Show Producer. The production team from The Bridgespan Group includes Cora Daniels, Michael Borger, Christina Pistorius, and Britt Savage. Additional music and editing provided by nodalab. 

Show descriptionWelcome to Dreaming in Color, a show that provides a platform for BIPOC social change leaders to candidly share how their lived experiences (personal and professional) have prepared them to lead their work and drive the impact we all seek. In this episode, our guest is Ashindi Maxton. She is a Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Donors of Color Network, an organization that offers a philanthropic and political home for high-net-worth donors of color committed to building power for and across communities of color. From racial equity and voting rights to climate justice and income inequality, Ashindi has had her finger on the pulse of where and importantly how we need to do and be better. Join in as we speak with Ashindi on bringing community and confidence to her work, leaning into healing and collective efforts, and demanding accountability and action.Jump straight into:(00:21) - Introducing Ashindi Maxton: Co-Founder of the Donors of Color Network and a truly brilliant mind.(01:47) - Ashindi pulls inspiration from a poem by Eve Ewing, Buddhism, and the Twitterverse.(06:32) - The ability to heal: Takeaways from Ashindi’s early path in politics.(10:19) - “I know how this reality trickles down”: Experiences and principles that have driven Ashindi’s career.(16:28) - ”Walk into the place like you own it”: On community, a sense of belonging in the social sector and the effectiveness of the Climate Justice Funders Pledge.(23:24) - A battle of imagination: Family stories and dystopian fictions that bring lessons on how to achieve victories for social justice. (32:46) - New suns and surviving the end of the world.Episode resourcesConnect with Ashindi Maxton through <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashindi-maxton-970a5b24/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ashindi/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>Learn more about <a href="https://www.donorsofcolor.org/our-team/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Donors of Color Network</a> including the <a href="https://climate.donorsofcolor.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Climate Justice Funders Pledge</a>Check out <a href="https://www.octaviabutler.com/work" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">some of the written works</a> by Octavia E. ButlerRead <a href="https://eveewing.com/electricarches" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Electric Arches</a> by Eve L. EwingRead <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Every-Step-Mindfulness-Everyday/dp/0553351397" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life</a> by Thich Nhat HanhRead <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Inequalities-Children-Americas-Schools/dp/0770435688" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools</a> by Jonathan KozolRead <a href="https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Words</a> by Adrienne Maree Brown and listen to the podcast <a href="https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">How to Survive the End of the World</a> hosted by Adrienne and her sister Autumn BrownLearn more about <a href="https://colorofchange.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Color of Change</a>Thank you for listening to Dreaming in Color a<a href="https://www.bridgespan.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> Bridgespan</a> supported<a href="https://www.studiopodsf.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> StudioPod</a> production. Nicole Genova is the Show Coordinator and Teresa Buchanan is the Show Producer. The production team from The Bridgespan Group includes Cora Daniels, Michael Borger, Christina Pistorius, and Britt Savage. Additional music and editing provided by<a href="https://nodalab.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"> nodalab</a>.

Ashindi Maxton: Winning the Battle for America’s Imagination

Hali Lee

Ashindi and Hali join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how they've researched, reached out and built a community for donors across race and experience, through their organization Donors of Color.

Engaging Donors Across Race and Experience with Ashindi Maxton and Hali Lee of Donors of Color

Ashindi is an independent strategist and donor advisor in democracy reform, social and racial justice. She has developed funding strategies informing more than $100 million in investments from some of the largest foundations and individual donors in the United States  - including the Democracy Alliance, the Ford Foundation, The Women Donors Network, the Sandler Family Foundation, and PowerPAC. Ashindi co-founded the Emergent Fund, a post 2016 election rapid response fund supporting organizing in the most impacted communities where Muslim, Black, immigrant, Latino, Asian, women, and LGBTQ leaders took the lead in decision-making and were the primary recipients of over $1 million raised in the first 100 days of the new Administration. In May of 2016 she also co-authored, with Urvashi Vaid, the first comprehensive report on high net worth donors of color titled, “The Apparitional Donor: Understanding and Engaging High Net Worth Donors of Color”. She also piloted voter engagement projects geared at Asian American voting, voter registration in community health clinics and ran a witness search and data collection effort which proved to be pivotal in overturning the Pennsylvania voter ID law in 2012.  Prior to all of this, Ashindi worked in education. She was the principal of an elementary arts charter school, a Spanish bilingual fifth grade teacher, and a policy fellow to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education. She was also a Fulbright Scholar to the Dominican Republic where she published the first national study on race consciousness in Dominican children. In addition to her work in philanthropy, Ashindi has served as the National Policy Director of the NAACP and the National Director of Political Partnerships for SEIU International. Ashindi serves on the boards of the Texas Organizing Project and Free Speech TV. She has been listed three times to Washington Magazine’s “Young and the Guest List” of forty and under geniuses, visionaries, crusaders and innovators shaping Washington's future” in addition to the “NAACP Power 40” list of most influential African-Americans under forty. Ms. Maxton is a graduate of Vassar College and has a Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. It's hard to think of someone more accomplished in her field.  So grateful that she carved out time for us today.  Enjoy the show!

Ashindi is an independent strategist and donor advisor in democracy reform, social and racial justice. She has developed funding strategies informing more than $100 million in investments from some of the largest foundations and individual donors in the United States  - including the Democracy Alliance, the Ford Foundation, The Women Donors Network, the Sandler Family Foundation, and PowerPAC. Ashindi co-founded the Emergent Fund, a post 2016 election rapid response fund supporting organizing in the most impacted communities where Muslim, Black, immigrant, Latino, Asian, women, and LGBTQ leaders took the lead in decision-making and were the primary recipients of over $1 million raised in the first 100 days of the new Administration. In May of 2016 she also co-authored, with Urvashi Vaid, the first comprehensive report on high net worth donors of color titled, “The Apparitional Donor: Understanding and Engaging High Net Worth Donors of Color”. She also piloted voter engagement projects geared at Asian American voting, voter registration in community health clinics and ran a witness search and data collection effort which proved to be pivotal in overturning the Pennsylvania voter ID law in 2012.  Prior to all of this, Ashindi worked in education. She was the principal of an elementary arts charter school, a Spanish bilingual fifth grade teacher, and a policy fellow to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education. She was also a Fulbright Scholar to the Dominican Republic where she published the first national study on race consciousness in Dominican children. In addition to her work in philanthropy, Ashindi has served as the National Policy Director of the NAACP and the National Director of Political Partnerships for SEIU International. Ashindi serves on the boards of the Texas Organizing Project and Free Speech TV. She has been listed three times to Washington Magazine’s “Young and the Guest List” of forty and under geniuses, visionaries, crusaders and innovators shaping Washington's future” in addition to the “NAACP Power 40” list of most influential African-Americans under forty. Ms. Maxton is a graduate of Vassar College and has a Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. It's hard to think of someone more accomplished in her field.  So grateful that she carved out time for us today.  Enjoy the show!

Ashindi Maxton - Democracy Reform, Racial and Social Justice