Identity & The Impact Pro: Where The Personal Meets Professional

Issue Space

Does a certain ‘kind’ of person gravitate toward careers in social change? Is a sense of shared identity among folks in changemaking roles helpful to the work being done – or limiting? What’s partisanship got to do with it? In this episode of the Issue Space podcast, we talk with a social impact career development specialist and a journalist-turned-campaigner about the identity trends in this very personal professional scene, and what these patterns mean for the sector.

About

Working to make life better for humankind is both a privilege and a challenge, and no one knows this better than the folks who have made this work their day job. Issue Space is a podcast and community for professional changemakers of every kind. Through candid conversations about the lived experience of social change work, we hold space to process life in the unique — and uniquely needed — business of impact.

Host

Cat Addo

https://www.cataddo.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherineaddo/

Guests

Robbie Ross https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjayross/

Marisa Kabas https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisa-kabas-bb054722/

Discussed references:

How to Separate Your Work From Your Identity https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6314042/oprah-arthur-brooks-happiness-at-work/

My Fight or Yours: Stereotypes of Activists From Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01461672211060124#:~:text=One%20key%20reason%20for%20this,aggressive%20emotionality%2C%20moral%20superiority%2C%20and

The ironic impact of activists: Negative stereotypes reduce social change influence https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.1983

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