This week I am participating in a three-week Facebook Group event called Impact Giveaway. Produced by the dynamic duo, Iman and Afrin Khan of Red Elephant, it features expert high performers in Business, Personal and Impact Development, speaking three times a day. Each expert has also provided giveaways of white papers, consultations, videos and trainings in their areas of expertise.
It’s about time. On May 4, 2020, it was announced that Ida B. Wells Barnett had received a posthumous Special Citation Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Wells had a much fuller life than can be described here. But several of her outstanding characteristics continue to appeal and inspire: the crusading journalist, savvy newspaper owner, piercing orator, organizer of tactical genius, pioneer of marriage equality and working mother –in short, a woman ahead of her time.
My friend Sylvia, a hospital administrator, has been working from home during the pandemic. Her boss, who is the chief executive, sent her home as soon as the dimensions of the Coronavirus’ impact became clear. She foresaw there needed to be a clear mind and able hands beyond the front lines of critical care to help with the immense coordinating tasks that lay ahead.