Pivot Point

Dr. Michelle Nicome drew on decades of experience in philanthropy to support a University that faced multiple and overlapping financial challenges. In this episode, we will hear how she responded to these challenges and navigated her own challenge of moving between the roles of consultant and researcher. 

When Dr. Lakita Little-McKinney began working with All-In-Milwaukee–a coalition of education partners helping limited-income, high-potential students graduate college–they wanted to better understand barriers to completion. Lakita found a way to center student voices in her investigation and empower All-In Milwaukee to expect more from its university partners. 

In this third episode, Dr. Leonard L. Richards Jr. encounters long-standing racial underrepresentation among faculty at a predominately white college of education. Even before critical race theory was in the news, Leonard was using it to bring together the past and present to chart a more responsible future for a college he loved.

In this week’s episode of Pivot Point, Riley Post helps West Point improve its peer evaluation process for cadets. You'll hear how Dr. Post identified inherent shortcomings in the process that existed, and how he supported the redesign of a more just and productive approach to peer evaluation for cadets at the United States’ most prestigious military academy.

Alex Yu says that when he launched his project he only had and a general sense that he wanted to help a non-profit organization improve. By the end of a process filled with all kinds of twists and turns, Alex was helping Colorado’s biggest LBGTQ+ advocacy organization remake the way they approached fundraising.