Listen "Redefining Leadership, Cultural Complexity, and Poems about Spam Musubi with Cady Ching"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, we connect with Cady Ching, CEO of Summit Public Schools, and discuss:Her complex cultural identity, family's history, being raised in Hawaii, and why it's important to be specific about who we are (2:03)How teaching at Summit kept her in California, her journey as an educator and leader, and the truly remarkable process of how she became CEO (19:22)A shared vision for a new type of leadership and structure that centers collectivity and liberation, the role her identity plays, and how she leads and disrupts at the same time (27:22)What it's like to follow a founder/CEO and grow into her own leadership (42:22)How we make sense of all the acronyms used to describe our communities, and who they actually serve (49:28)And we end with a reading of one of her father's haikus about Spam musubi (55:14)
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