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Yavilah McCoy and Jonathan Greenblatt

Yavilah McCoy is the CEO of Dimensions Educational Consulting, which provides strategic direction on diversity and equity initiatives for faith-based social justice agencies and college campuses, as well as for national training and outreach programs for Jews of Color. Jonathan Greenblatt is CEO and national director of the ADL. Prior to joining the ADL, he served in the Obama White House and was formerly a serial social entrepreneur and corporate executive.

Different Modes of Ally-ship

Yavilah McCoy and Jonathan GreenblattOctober 29, 2018

I asked Yavilah McCoy, a diversity activist, and Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the ADL, to engage with each other through a series of letters about the parameters and boundaries of ally-ship — and the roles that power and privilege play in building coalitions to fight injustice. —S.B.