Submitted by Nadia Elokdah on January 28, 2022
“If you’ve taken a leap, what was the runway you needed? If you wanted to take a leap, but didn’t, what held you back?” writes guest editor Donita Volkwijn about the prompts for the latest edition of Nonprofit Wakanda Quarterly.
“Most people growing up in the United States, either from birth or as settlers from other lands, have heard some form of the adage, “leap and the net will appear,'” Volkwjin continues …”Those of us in the BIPOC community know that there is no such thing as a magical net. If we’ve ever benefitted from a soft landing, we know that every thread of our net was crafted from the wisdom, joy, fear and pain of those who came before us. “