At this week's Round Table, Kenisha, Madeline and Skyla spoke with Rich Tafel, Managing Director of Raffa Social Capital Advisors and Director of the American Project, a new effort to bring together leading thinkers to imagine new solutions to America’s broken political system. Tafel is also pastor of Church of the Holy City in Washington DC, where he is launching a spiritual entrepreneur hub. Prior to this, he created the Log Cabin Republicans and authored "Party Crasher: A Gay Republican Challenges Politics as Usual," (Simon & Schuster); directed the adolescent health programs of Massachusetts; and served as Assistant to the Minister at Harvard University’s chapel. Rich is a transformative leader at the intersection of faith, politics and social impact and his experiences and insights wowed us. We talked about Rich’s eclectic background (he’s never had a job that existed before he had it…), how political campaigns around gay rights and AIDs have informed his sense of strategy, the complexity of cultural translation work, his desire to provide a language middle America can understand politically (if you want to make change, you need to bring middle America along…), how his faith and principles of inclusion guide his practice, and so much more. W Thank you for listening!
