#bookjoy at @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social with a treasured colleague, Dr. María Rosa Brea, I finally met in person! Bonus? We're color coordinated with the book cover. 😆 #leadingtowardliberation @hopkinspress.bsky.social

What a great feeling celebrating Latinx authors and creatives at today's La Feria/Academic Book Showcase at NYU during Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month! Thank you for hosting, @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social, and including #LeadingTowardLiberation!

If you're in NYC tomorrow (9/27), stop by and see me at the New York University Latinx Project's book showcase/La Feria: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion... #LeadingTowardLiberation @hopkinspress.bsky.social

At a dahlia festival in Spokane and I spotted what I thought was a bee enjoying some nectar, only to find a yellow crab spider enjoying its meal. #doubletake

"Why Values Are Central to Career Decisions" - HigherEdJobs share.google/BP7m0PWHFoxP... #leadingtowardliberation

@bookshop.org is having a 20% off sale on books by Latine authors and my book #LeadingTowardLiberation is included (use code LHM25)! Reading is a way to build critical self-awareness and empathic capacity to promote freedom and liberation for all! @hopkinspress.bsky.social #LatineHeritageMonth

Check out this book that I signed at an event yesterday. It makes me so happy when readers flag the heck out of my book (esp. with cat stickers)! #leadingtowardliberation @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Volunteer #sunflowers are the best. #Spokane

Morning visitors. #WesternBluebird

Where are the schools and employers that are articulating the skills they believe are necessary for success at their institution? Merit can be defined in many ways.

Mini #waterfall at Finch Arboretum. #Spokane

Just learned that my @hopkinspress.bsky.social book is in its third printing in its third week of being alive! 🤯 Latin American liberation praxis has a lot to teach us about how to lead in the current moment. I'm so grateful that it's resonating with folks! #LeadingTowardLiberation #highered

I have a new supervisor in the garden. #CaliforniaQuail

Wow, this cake decorator knocked it out of the park! Thank you, Carissa! #LeadingTowardLiberation #PubDay #LiberatoryJoy

Excited to wake up today and learn that Leading Toward Liberation is the #1 New Release in inclusive education just one day after its official pub day! I'm grateful that this book is resonating with folks.🐦🐦🐦 @hopkinspress.bsky.social #LeadingTowardLiberation

Thank you to Keith and the @stuaffairsnow.bsky.social team for the shout out about Leading Toward Liberation, a guide based on Latin American liberation praxis for leading in higher education that promotes human flourishing for everyone. #LeadingTowardLiberation

I hope folks at institutions that similarly use "market forces" as the sole metric for program cuts or other things like differential pay across disciplines, etc., use this moment to read the reality of their institutions and strategize liberating ways forward before they get to this stage.

Hey friends, tune in to the @stuaffairsnow.bsky.social podcast to learn more about why we need to practice liberatory leadership and acompañamiento in today's #highered. Thanks to Keith Edwards for the liberating convo! #LeadingTowardLiberation

Took an art class today on how to get unstuck on projects. What's the lesson this resident cat is teaching us? #catsintheclassroom #lessonsfromcats #creativity

Took a printmaking class last week. I highly recommend the arts to cultivate liberating joy! #LeadingTowardLiberation #LiberatingJoy

Liberation is for everyone so that means a book about Leading Toward Liberation is for everyone too! Don't take my word for it - listen to renowned liberation psychologist Dra. Lillian Comas-Díaz. ¡Estoy muy agradecida para su apoyo! #LeadingTowardLiberation @hopkinspress.bsky.social

For anyone who's interested, I'm doing a free webinar with fellow Hopkins Press author @annmarie-cano.bsky.social, hosted by @gmbritton.bsky.social, in the run-up to our books' releases. You can join by Zoom or LinkedIn Live. June 30th, 12-1PM EST. To join by Zoom: uncw.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I grew this baby from a seed A SEED! Something that looks like nothing special, that looks dead. Think what else can grow when we plant with intentionality and critical hope! Something beautiful and nourishing and almost unimaginable, but alive!

I loved presenting in the cozy Lydia Mendelssohn Theater yesterday in UofM's Michigan League for the 10th annual @aacu.org New Leadership Academy. It seemed especially timely to be talking about values-based leadership and accompaniment at this location given the day's news! #leadingtowardliberation

Turkeys and gopher snakes. Just a normal spring in #Spokane.

This bird landed on my head today while I was tending my garden. That's a good sign, right? #mothernature

My snap peas have sprouted! This is my first season with #squarefootgardening as a backyard antidote to chaos.

I get the best smiles from my family when I fumble the camera trying to get everyone in the picture. Plus it's our boy's #birthday today so we're feeling extra goofy. Happy Friday!

What's going on at NSF, NIH, NEH, NEA, the libraries, univs, and academic journals is all about control. AND there are always ways to resist. #readingreality #criticalhope

Phlox and anemone sending you sunny vibes. #Spring #FlowerCarpet

Through a glass, darkly? #stainedglass #spiritreflection

Pansies amidst fallen crabapple petals. #FauxSnow #Spring

Dogwood on campus. Beautiful! #Trees #Spring

Just two psychologists resisting with joy and dreamstorming another future. @jennifermgomez-phd.bsky.social

A question for higher admin: "If I were a faculty or staff member right now, what would I want my leaders to be doing right now?" It's a question I often asked myself when I was a dean. It gave me the courage to say and do things that "en-couraged" others. It's hard to do and also quite simple.

Your 4-leaf cover is just waiting to be found! I found my first of the season in my own garden. #LuckyDay🍀

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Papa Francisco was like a breath of fresh air that allowed me to see a different future for me, my family, and the world. He was a liberator. I'm grateful for the new life he breathed into human relations. We need to keep it alive. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

In March 2013, I was at the gym doing squats when my friend Susan (a Muslim) texted me to tell me the new pope was a Jesuit. I told her she must mean Jesuit-educated. She said I was the incorrect one. How wrong I was, and what an incredible pope he was. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Spring, like life, is fleeting so savor it! #Spokane

Early Arrowleaf Balsamroot blooms. This year's show will be spectacular! #Spokane #GetOutside #Wildflowers

Spring beauties in #Spokane. Bonus was the ruby-crowned kinglet family flitting among the Ponderosa Pines.

What a joyful time I had sharing the hope of liberation praxis in this particular moment with faculty, staff, students, leaders, and alumni from Wayne State University's Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies! ¡Mil gracias a todxs! #LeadingTowardLiberation @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Unfurl! The world needs you.

My dog is giving me guilty vibes for not including her in my acknowledgments. Do you think she'll forgive me? #LeadingTowardliberation Pre-order from @hopkinspress.bsky.social: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Bloom where you're planted, even if you're planted there just for now.

Tiny green growing things give me hope. If they can do it, so can we!

The similarities of the attacks on #highered are early familiar. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from univ leaders who lived the true meaning (& costs) of liberation. My take in @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/lessons-from... #leadingtowardliberation @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Receiving the advance copies of my book was much more exciting than I could have imagined! Grateful that it will soon be available to others navigating this challenging time in #highered. #liberationpraxis #leadingtowardliberation #liberatingacademia @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Latin American liberation praxis as enacted by the Comunidades Eclesiales de Base in El Salvador offers a methodology to read reality and act from a place of freedom for personal and collective liberation. This model gives me hope! #liberatingacademia #leadingtowardliberation #liberationpraxis