"I think there's a place where we can get to that's short of legal action, that can propel the conversation in the direction where reforms are made," Duru said.
As long as we continue to need to tell sensationalist, victim-focused stories to propel a conversation about violence against women, our progress will be sporadic.
In New York, Liza and I asked ourselves, "What can we do more of to propel the conversation around these issues?" We decided that in order to melt down shame and fear around mental health, we needed to have real, open conversations together.
What we needed is a call to action, a new wave of young black leaders who demand that we literally and figuratively "pull our pants up," challenge us to be accountable for our actions, and propel the conversation inward to ask, "did we fail Trayvon?" I wholeheartedly agree that justice was not served for Trayvon.
But this case has surely impacted and propelled the conversation around diversity in tech.
She had won $10,000 in funding for a youth center, expanded their peer-support program, and propelled the conversation about youth suicide back onto the national stage.
By the end of 2016, Nina Griffiths, a teen from New Zealand, had won $10,000 in funding for a youth centre, expanded their peer-support program, and propelled the conversation about youth suicide back onto the national stage.
(She is also one of the lawmakers featured in the illuminating, Oscar-nominated documentary Invisible War, which deserves credit for propelling the conversation about military sexual assault into the public sphere).
But in the Engeman production, under the deft direction of Igor Goldin, every conversation propels the characters' relationships and the musical's themes, creating a vibrant portrait of life during wartime.
The roundtable has propelled a critical conversation about how those in leadership positions – on boards, regulators, director associations and peak bodies – can ensure directors have the targets, tools, skills and processes in place to meet higher internal and external governance expectations.
What she didn't know then was that he would turn out to be, as she puts it, "a natural editor of the culture, a force of nature in the way he propels his work into the conversation".
