M. Gabriela Alcalde: WHAT YOUR COMFORT COSTS US (with Khalilah Harris and Nancy Lord)

Come on over to Bird in Hand for an intimate, conversation-style event with Dr. M. Gabriela Alcalde, whose research and practice have led to her new, impactful book: What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture. Khalilah Harris and Nancy Lord will join Dr. Alcalde in conversation.

What Your Comfort Costs Us offers essential reading and transparent advice for leaders who are ready to address structural inequity at work. With chapters like “Talking About Racism is Hard,” “Checking the Boxes,” and “Uncovering the Added Burden and Toll of Unpaid and Unseen Emotional Labor,” anti-supremacist philanthropic and nonprofit leader and author M. Gabriela Alcalde challenges us to rethink how we engage power–and take radical action toward reorienting it toward collective liberation.

Born in Lima, Peru, Dr. Alcalde is a creative, anti-supremacist leader with experience in the philanthropic, academic, governmental, nonprofit, and grassroots sectors. She writes and speaks locally, nationally, and internationally about shifting the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, culture change, racial justice, and leadership of women of color. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Louisville, a master’s in public health from Boston University, and a doctorate in global public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. What Your Comfort Costs Us is her first book.