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Imagination is Political: Dreaming Together with Desiree Adaway

Imagination is Political: Dreaming Together with Desiree Adaway

Update: 2025-08-05
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We are currently in a collective battle of the imagination. While the power of the 99% may be limited, we grow our power when we reclaim our ability to imagine from dominant narratives.

As Desiree Adaway shares in this episode, imagining the world we long for is one of the most powerful and radical acts there is. Even if we do not live to see the fruits of our imagination, the billionaire class does not get to tell us what is possible. We get to be good ancestors. We get to choose what we long for.



If you need inspiration and a soothing balm to help you see beyond the confines of our current realities, this is for you.

About Desiree Adaway:

Desiree Adaway, CEO of the Adaway Group, is a trainer, speaker, and consultant dedicated to intersectional race equity and DEI change work. For over 25 years, she has helped build resilient, equitable, and inclusive organizations across all sectors and educated over 50,000 people on the most crucial issues of our time.



She embraces the difficult conversations required to help organizations reduce harm, center equity, and build meaningful relationships while teaching others how to do the same. Desiree supports leaders and teams in upleveling their analysis and skills around identity, power, and institutional inequities that lead to lasting culture, process, and policy change.

Connect with Desiree:



 Instagram

LinkedIn

Blue Sky



Resources Desiree Recommends:



A Great Starter on Time

The Cycle of Liberation, by Bobbie Harro

The Cycle of Socialization by Bobbie Harro

The Adaway Group



Resources from Katherine:



Your Core Values Practice: to help you imagine and center what matters most to you

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Imagination is Political: Dreaming Together with Desiree Adaway

Imagination is Political: Dreaming Together with Desiree Adaway

Katherine Golub