#Transformative Change

Where Truth Meets Task, Transformation Takes Root

Finally, measurement should reflect the meeting place rather than distort it. Developmental evaluation (Michael Quinn Patton, 2011) tracks learning in real time, valuing stories alongside statistics. Metrics ask who benefits and who is burdened, whether power has shifted, and how practices have evolved. By letting evidence converse with values, organizations keep truth visible while refining tasks. In this way, assessment becomes not a judgment after the fact but a companion to transformation as it unfolds. [...]

Quiet Persistence Carves Mountains Into Passable Paths

Finally, persistence must be sustainable. Audre Lorde wrote that self-care can be political warfare, a strategy for survival in hostile conditions (A Burst of Light, 1988). Tricia Hersey’s Rest Is Resistance (2022) furthers this insight, arguing that rest protects the steady labor of justice from extraction and burnout. Rest, then, is not a pause from persistence; it is part of the rhythm that keeps it quiet and enduring rather than frantic and brittle. By pacing effort, celebrating incremental wins, and redistributing load through community, we preserve the very force that carves the pass. In time, what once loomed as a wall becomes a way—proof that gentle insistence, kept alive, is stronger than the stone it reshapes. [...]