“I’m from a working class family that was long on love and short on cash. The question is your plan reaching Otis Brown.” Thasunda Brown Duckett of TIAA on how we must ensure the Otis Browns - doing everything they can to provide for their family - are cared for. #JFFHorizons

Stark decreases in labor market participation b/w 20 and 34, especially 20 - 24, in Maryland. How can we reach more young people where they are and create more workplace-based experiences. It’s not that there’s undersubscribed levels of interest. Secretary Wu #JFFHorizons

“We’re fighting for the country we want to live in. That’s not a step away but a step in.” Dennis Serrette of National Urban League #JFFHorizons

“The essential contributions of people who care for us came into focus. We had a work plan and had to put that aside to be in community.” Brooke DeRenzis of National Skills Coalition on how to both hold our North Star and evolve our pathway, much as we did in covid. #JFFHorizons

“75% of books written in the last five years were written by white men. In a world where books write the stories we know to be true, that stat is staggering. My job is to fix that stat.” Luvvie Ajayi Jones #JFFHorizons

“It’s mysterious on purpose. It wants the few to know how to do it and the rest of us to be confused.” Luvvie Ajayi Jones on how the process of writing a book is opaque and how urgent it is to surface diverse voices #JFFHorizons

“Who we are today is good enough for the bound piece. It’s a snapshot of a moment in time, of a prevailing thought, of an idea.” Luvvie Ajayi Jones #JFFHorizons

“We spend so much of our lives trying to show up in spaces trying to be who we think the world thinks we should be. Ditch being the representative.” Luvvie Ajayi Jones #JFFHorizons

“I think there’s genius in our day to day experiences. That if we own them, put them down, put them in ink, it can help someone else.” Julian Newman #JFFHorizons

“We spend so much time thinking about changing the world, when we really should be thinking about changing the room.” Luvvie Ajayi Jones #JFFHorizons

“The stories you write, the lessons you learn, are actually the map of someone else’s journey.” Luvvie Ajayi Jones #JFFHorizons

“We know they have the skills, knowledge, and ability but how do we take care of the person they are too?” Darvelle Hutchins of New Orleans Saints #JFFHorizons

“The solutions that we fund have to be as big as the problems that we face.” Molly Lasagna of Ascendium's Education Philanthropy on the need to lean on and learn from grantees to deeply listen and surface the solutions #JFFHorizons

Mistakes belong in the past. We belong in the future. Thank you Susan Burton of A New Way of Life #JFFHorizons

“Without having the internal buy in or that hearts and minds change, you’re not going to go very far. Lead with the ROI of why this is going to be better.” Paige Bongiorno of Opportunity@Work #JFFHorizons

“To be human is really a special skill, because we experience it through every fiber of our being. I don’t think AI will know how it feels to have a paper cut, to bump your baby toe.” Renee Cummings of UVA #JFFHorizons

“The genie in the lamp is designed by people. It’s designed to do a thing. There’s no such thing as AI or AGI that is values-neutral. They embody what we embed into them.” Vilas Dhar at #JFFHorizons

“AGI is absolutely the wrong goal and I hate that we’re pursuing it. The extent that the industry can build tools and not AGI can lead to less inequality and less dispersed outcomes.” Nicholas Thompson of The Atlantic #JFFHorizons

“How do we create an ecosystem for AI that orients purpose as a common piece?” Vilas Dhar at #JFFHorizons

“We lionize innovation in the tech sector. We absolutely miss the opportunity to do the same in the social sector.” Vilas Dhar at #JFFHorizons