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Leadership Development & Coalition Building Across Races
Akemi Mechtel Akemi Mechtel

Leadership Development & Coalition Building Across Races

“The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.” - Grace Lee Boggs

My identity is in constant development. As a multi-racial person who spent most of my life in the midwest I regularly straddle the line between too much and not enough. I was constantly looking for someone I could relate to and always coming up short. Most of my life and experience in suburban Minnesota was spent feeling, and honestly, trying to be invisible.

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