fmr Chief Policy Advisor to @GovMurphy and Secretary of Higher Education for @NJGov, Obama alum, wife, girl mom
Atlanta, GA
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Saturday morning reminder that while many of us may make this work look easy, it’s not. It’s day in and day out of grind, inch by inch progress, sometimes working for no progress, and often if not always seems impossible until it’s done (Madiba taught us). Don’t be discouraged.
Posted a reel this week that seems to have struck a nerve: “If you’re bad at managing people, you’ll probably also be bad at managing AI.” Decided to write the longer version. open.substack.com/pub/zakiya…
The policy platform won the election.
Now you have to make it real.
Implementation is the difference between lives changed and expensive theater.
My latest, on the importance of policy implementation: zakiyaellis.substack.com/p/o…
I’ve been silent on this platform for a while…but if anyone is still looking for my thoughts, find them here: zakiyaellis.substack.com
I need us to stop talking about economic policy as if capitalism in America has ever been disconnected from White Supremacy. #makeitmakesense
Savage
NO WAY
#Vandy played this quote from Nick Saban after the upset over Alabama:
“The only place that’s not hard to play in the SEC is Vanderbilt.”
Voter suppression is real. A family member moved back to GA. They registered to vote when they got their new license. After a while, they realized they hadn’t received anything in the mail, and called to inquire where her voter registration card was 1/
But no matter, no one CALLED or reached out to say we aren’t going to register you/we are cancelling your registration THAT YOU JUST ASKED FOR. Had they not followed up to check, they would have never known they weren’t registered.5/
Dr. Zakiya Smith Ellis retweeted
FACT: Immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born citizens. npr.org/2024/03/08/123710315…
