Guest Newsflash

Jennifer Brown will be joining more than 150 speakers for fascinating conversations about diversity, inclusion, gender, disability and more at The Non-Obvious Beyond Diversity Summit. This virtual summit is dedicated to transforming well-intentioned conversation into real action and meaningful change. In the past year, the conversation around DEI issues reached a long overdue tipping point. […]

Drum Major AwardDee Strum is the recipient of the 2021 Drum Major Award. Strum served two terms as the 7th National President of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.  where she worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joe Biden on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and amendments to the

Our “podcasts” are now in video! You can access these directly from our website, too, so you can see their entire guest write-up – and link over to the videos! AND on TrailBlazers Impact Podcast YouTube channel, you can see that some of them are in an entirely new format – podcasts with pictures! Subscribe

By Nan McKay – As you watched the TV, did you say, “Yikes! 2021? I thought 2020 was bad!” 2021 is starting off with some scary scenes and events!  Most of us are trying to stand strong and stay safe and keep saying, “This too will pass.” Several of the guests I have interviewed have

Happy New Year from the Nan McKay Connects Team! Has there ever been a year you have been happier to toss out the door? We are ready to cross the bridge to 2021! For those of us who are retired/refired, we are sequestering and waiting for the vaccine. The podcasts have been a life-saver for

How are you feeling about Christmas and the holiday season? We are sad about people who are going hungry this Christmas and hope there is relief in sight soon!  And all of us will be grateful when this year ends! And hopeful for 2021. The year is different even if all you are doing is

The year 2021 is going to shepherd in an extended period of austerity. All states except Vermont have to balance budgets and that will mean cutting grants and contracts to nonprofits. The Wall Street Journal ran the following headline this past October 28: “U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression.” The blue print for

The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition (AHTCC) announced that Flat 9 at Whittier in Roxbury, Mass., is a 2020 recipient of the Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award in the HUD Housing Preservation category, recognizing affordable housing developments and organizations that have demonstrated especially impactful use of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. Flat 9

YouTube has become the premiere podcast listening channel! Nan McKay Connects is repositioning the guest podcasts to the new channel but adding a twist! Now you can see pictures, many of them actual pictures of the guests, which portray their podcast discussion. People are saying, “It’s so much fun to SEE what people are talking about!”

UND Today interviewed Lyn Burton on the University’s influence on her career and life trajectory through hard work and seized opportunities. Pictured here with Nohemy Garcia Vda Figueroa, Lyn Burton’s family hosted Figueroa’s son as an Amity Exchange teacher in 1996. Ever since her own exchange-student experience in Colombia in 1969, Burton has followed developments