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Riley Mulcahy is an advocate and storyteller championing neurodiversity and equity. As Executive Director of The RILEY Project, Riley focuses on leadership, inclusion, and creating accessible spaces for all.
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The Negotiation Is in the Translation (opens the original)
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In first grade, another student said to me, “That’s not what that says.”Last year, in a KQED Perspective about growing up dyslexic, I wrote that this was the moment shame entered the room. I also described dyslexia as a constant negotiation with a world that was not built with your brain in mind. I keep coming back to that phrase, but I think I understand it differently now.The LD Vie
From Stories to Belonging: Why The RILEY Project is Building the Belonging Summit (opens the original)
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So often, we think about belonging in a vacuum—or at least, I used to.For a long time, belonging felt almost like a magical power: something you either had or you didn’t.The LD Viewpoint is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primary" type="submit" value="Sub
The Infrastructure Behind the Mission (opens the original)
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Next week, I will be launching something big, something I have been working toward for the last several months. Before it goes public, I wanted to share it here first, because the announcement is only one part of a larger story about what The RILEY Project has been becoming.In the first few years, a lot of the organization lived in my head, in my relationships, and in the things I was personally able to make happen. That is probably true for many small nonprofits in the beginning. You start with
Perhaps the Pieces Aren’t Missing (opens the original)
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Belonging.The LD Viewpoint is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.It’s the word that I have written a
Building the Conditions to Belong (opens the original)
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I have been thinking about what it means to build an organization around belonging without turning the word into something abstract. Belonging, agency, and community are used so often that they can quickly become buzzwords. They appear in mission statements and strategic plans, often as separate goals, without much consideration of how they depend on one another. Community does not necessarily create belonging, and belonging without agency can still leave people feeling like passive recipients r
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