MIA HENRY

Speaking & Appearances

Podcast Episodes with Mia

Navigating Leadership, Justice and Power in Nonprofits

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Privilege and Power in the Workplace

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Using Power to Bring More Power to People: Education for Freedom and Justice

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Black Businesses Matter

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America's Undeclared War On Its People

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What Is Social Justice: Mia Henry

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The Non-Violent Stuff'll Get You Killed

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The Shared Power Podcast

NOTEs on collective leadership

The Shared Power Podcast is about how people can lead collectively in spaces designed to support equity and advance justice.

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Articles & Interviews

Six Ways to Resist

Black Americans have always embraced a liberation mindset. These are the ways.

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Op-ed: Why every 8th grade class should go to Alabama

The story of American democracy is not complete without understanding events that led to and unfolded during the civil rights movement.

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Mia Interviews Stacey Abrams at 2020 PLA National Conference

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Official Bio

Mia Henry is the founder and CEO of Freedom Lifted, which offers leadership development through online learning, training, and facilitation. With her unique and approachable style, Mia has created educational spaces and practical tools to support just and ethical leadership for hundreds of organizations and more than 10,000 individuals.

Mia has deep experience leading organizations committed to promoting justice and equity, previously serving as Executive Director of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College and founding director of the Chicago Freedom School. From 2011 - 2022, she also designed and led 29 educational travel tours to Civil Rights sites in the Deep South.

A graduate of Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mia has also been educated by the family dinner table, her parents' bookshelves, her Black ancestors who resisted, and people working for justice and demanding dignity around the world.