Build a Bigger We—Using Calling In to Bridge Differences and Make Change, with Calling In author Loretta Ross
In her book, Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel, author and professor Loretta J. Ross shares her strategy for navigating collaboration with partners who think differently but have the same goal.
In her keynote conversation with the Alliance’s Jacy Montoya Price, she shared how this wisdom translates to address the challenges and realities of the current moment for early childhood policy advocates.
Loretta J. Ross is an activist, professor, and public intellectual. In her five decades in the human rights movement, she’s deprogramed white supremacists, taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism, and, as National Co-Director, organized the second-largest march on Washington (in April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., surpassed in size only by the 2017 Women’s March).
A cofounder of the National Center for Human Rights Education and the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, her many accolades and honors include a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship and a 2024 induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Today, Ross is an associate professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is the founder of LoRossta Consulting, with which she runs “Calling In” training sessions online and for organizations around the country.