CM Messages

After 15 years with Change Matrix (CM), 2022 marks the end of CM Co-Founder Suganya Sockalingam, PhD's entrepreneurial journey with the organization. The three CM founding partners knew each other during their days at the Center for Child and Human Development at Georgetown University. In 2006, Elizabeth Waetzig, JD and [...]

At the beginning of each year, the Change Matrix (CM) staff selects a word that sets our intentions for the year ahead. At the end of that year, we collectively reflect on how the word has guided or shaped our lives throughout the year before picking a new word in [...]

Change Matrix (CM) is committed to being a learning organization. CM’s Learning, Being, and Doing (LBD) Community is intended to hold space for team members to engage in new and challenging learning opportunities; encourage innovative application of the learning in our work; and promote thinking around how the learning impacts [...]

Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual tradition that lasts from September 15 through October 15. The National Archives says it celebrates the "achievements and contributions of Hispanic American champions who have inspired others to achieve success." "The day of September 15 is significant because it is the anniversary of independence [...]

Each July, National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is observed in order to bring awareness to the unique struggles that racial and ethnic minority communities face in receiving mental health in the United States. In recent years, this has been especially important because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has made [...]

Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day and Jubilee Day, is always a time to celebrate. This annual holiday marks the day that slaves were finally freed from Galveston, Texas, despite the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier. Although Juneteenth has been celebrated [...]