Internal Work

Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 marks the seventh annual National Day of Racial Healing. The day was created by La June Montgomery Tabron of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to be celebrated annually on the Tuesday following Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The intent is for the day to be celebrated during [...]

In November, Change Matrix (CM) held three Learning, Being, and Doing (LBD) sessions about the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). Healthy People 2030 defines the SDOH as "the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, [...]

This article is by Change Matrix Change Consultant and Racial Equity Trainer Evelyn Clark.  As a former direct services provider, I have witnessed clinical treatment deeply harm BIPOC young people. Much of this stemmed from the ongoing stigma against Black and Brown people in America — especially young Black men. [...]

The following was written by and from the perspective of Change Matrix (CM) Partner Elizabeth Waetzig: When CM started, the partners, Suganya, Rachele, and I were living in three different states.  Since that time two of us have moved to different states. I have moved four times. If we were [...]

As a learning organization, we strive to build on and leverage the strengths that each of our team members brings to the collective. We reviewed our StrengthsFinder assessment tool results, reflected on the diversity of our team, noticed where we have overlap and gaps, and thought about the ways our [...]

Suganya, Elizabeth, Shannon, and Kazzy at the National Museum of the American Indians This year Change Matrix had the honor of hosting a Match during the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL). We were interested in how countries and nations were developing leadership in neighborhoods, communities, countries, [...]