Amy Cabrera Rasmussen

This week in the podcast, I welcome violence prevention expert Meg Stone, the executive director of @impact_boston and author of two books, The Cost of Fear and Don’t Fight Back.  We discuss Stone’s career path, starting with how she found her area of focus via her college women’s studies program, which introduced her to some inspiring practitioners via her courses and academic internships.  She has held a host of roles in domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy, with a great deal of hands-on work in family court and shelters, in education, and in her current leadership role at IMPACT Boston.  Stone describes building IMPACT’s self-defense classes into a broader set of trainings that help folks to be empowered even while under stress and across a range of situations.  In the process, she reflects on stepping into leadership during organizational transition and the current and challenging nonprofit funding landscape.  We also discuss some important practical insights for those seeking to start of pivot into nonprofit work, including the importance of valuing the underlying tasks and skills that make mission-driven work possible.

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