Gabriela Alcalde discusses What Your Comfort Costs Us with Honorable Attica

About the book:

What Your Comfort Costs Us weaves the author’s leadership journey with the stories of women of color leaders in nonprofit, philanthropy, and higher education. It offers a powerful lens on leadership and practical strategies for creating workplaces where everyone can thrive. The book offers a way to practice empathy, particularly for those who are seldom forced to operate in a culture that is not of them and for them. The stories are the heart of the book; stories about power, about the difference between comfort and safety, and about taking up space

About the Author:

Dr. Alcalde is a creative, anti-supremacist leader with experience in the philanthropic, academic, governmental, nonprofit, and grassroots sectors. She writes and speaks locally, nationally, and internationally about shifting the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, culture change, racial justice, and leadership of women of color. She was born in Lima, Peru and lived in Louisville for over 20 years and still considers Louisville one of her homes. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Louisville, a master’s in public health from Boston University, and a doctorate in global public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. What Your Comfort Costs Us is her first book. Read more about Gabriela on her website: https://www.mgalcalde.com/

Honorable Attica Scott is the Director of Special Projects at Forward Justice Action Network, a 501c4 organization that serves as a strategic partner for coalitions, networks, and nonprofits at the forefront of movements organizing for a more equitable, free, and just US South.

Attica served for three terms as a State Representative where she sponsored legislation related to menstrual equity, Black maternal health, universal basic income, rent stabilization, police accountability, wrongful conviction compensation, student journalist freedom of the press, racism as a public health crisis, and expanding the teaching of Black and Indigenous history in public schools. In the state legislature, Attica was an active member of the House Standing Committees on Education, Judiciary, and Natural Resources.

She is a certified anti-racism trainer through Crossroads Ministry and the Commission on Religion in Appalachia. You can follow her on social media at atticascottky.

Host or Publisher Susan Norton