Dangerous speech rose and spread at alarming rates in the United States since the 2016 election, targeting marginalized racial, ethnic and religious communities, immigrants, undocumented persons, refugees, LGBTQIA+, and persons with disabilities.

Nathalie Al-Zyoud led a session on shifting power dynamics for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy during EPIP's annual conference in Detroit, Michigan.

Power, in the field of conflict resolution, is defined as the ability to bring about a preferred outcome. Traditional leadership has typically relied on directive strategies to manage employees, fearing that shared decision-making risks a loss of one’s chosen solution.

When in December of 2016 the cover page of Time Magazine labeled this country the "divided states of America,” it felt true. A harrowing 2016 U.S. presidential election, left a gash in American communities decades in the making.