Season Three of Becoming the Vision is here!
This season, we’re Dreaming Forward—turning lineage to legacy and purpose into practice.
In the first episode, we sit down with Joanna Jackson, President & CEO of the Weingart Foundation.
A New Yorker by way of the famed High School of Performing Arts, Joanna shares how her early training in drama shaped a leadership rooted in vulnerability, voice, and imagination. Descending from a family of organizers and activists, her story reflects a deep belief in the personal as collective—the understanding that our individual striving can serve freedom and justice for all.
Joanna's leadership journey is one of evolution, not arrival. As a testament to the importance of staying on purpose—doing the work from where you are, letting it be the guide—Joanna now leads the mission she helped to establish across her various roles at the foundation since 2008.
Her story illustrates how purpose can align with practice when the organization isn’t static, which Joanna credits to Weingart’s commitment to organizational learning as a posture.
Even amid political noise, Joanna focuses on the signal: the hope and solidarity emerging across Los Angeles and California. She names the opportunity and responsibility of this moment: to deepen collective visioning and practice as institutions, as leaders, and as people.
Our conversation becomes a meditation on meeting the moment—using everything you have, even that 95%, in service to collective liberation.
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