Emergent Strategy
Dreaming While Black with Walidah Imarisha and Calvin Williams
The Emergent Strategy Podcast
Dreaming While Black with Walidah Imarisha and Calvin Williams
The Emergent Strategy Podcast
Dreaming While Black with Walidah Imarisha and Calvin Williams
The Emergent Strategy Podcast
How do we start from building our own worlds and envisioning them rather than try to adapt what we've been given by some else? Walidah Imarisha, writer and dreamer with Calvin Williams of Wakanda Dream Lab join host, adrienne maree brown, for this Emergent Strategy episode.
The only requirement: your imagination.
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