Heather McGhee
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Heather McGhee is a prominent author and policy expert focused on economic and racial justice. This interview reveals her leadership style as one that is energetic and persuasive, aiming to unite diverse groups to confront and dismantle systemic barriers.
“What I leave? So I left because I'd been there, I'd been at Deimos since I was 22. And I was, you know, when I was 37, I decided I'd been quite a long time.”
“Of course. Yeah, I mean, I think it's old, right? I mean, this is Nixon stuff, you know, Johnson talked about this, right? But I think it It accelerated and it grew into a bigger common sense with the unhappy happenstance of Fox News becoming powerful and Obama being president for eight years right after a financial crisis where we didn't…”
“Where those inequalities are built. I loved running an organization and learning and fighting in the trenches. We became more connected to grassroots organizations. You can be a think tank and there's a model of a think tank where you do a research report and you talk to the media about it and that's it.”
“To have avoided the financial crisis that made it harder for us to fund our future. And it's not actually their people. They're like actual people that you can name who organize themselves politically, who have an agenda and are winning and are kicking our butts, right?”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 362 — Heather McGhee
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