Our taproot values
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Audacity
Dandelions possess the audacity to thrive in the face of profund obstacles. The work of cultural reimagination requires the audacity to embrace creativity - and resist the familiar - in our approach to engendering equity.
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Call-and-response
Sustainable culture change requires consistent community exchange. In a true community, the role of “leader” and “follower”, of “teacher” and “student,” are interchangeable.
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Creativity
Dandelions know that there is more than one way to proliferate. Higher creativity is required to ensure that we construct new cultures that are not inspired by the status quo. Low-level creativity has allowed the systems of oppression that we exist under today to persist.
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Idealism
Idealism is not the enemy or opposite of realism, but instead, the mindset we adopt to imagine things that we have never seen; to create more brilliant fictions than the ones that ushered in systems of inequity.
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Legacy
Dandelions plant their seeds far and wide. We focus on cultural reimagination because its impact extends beyond individuals and organizations. We begin the cultural reimagination process with conversations about legacy, and we encourage our clients to envision change that reaches across institutions and eras.
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Liberation
Dandelions are engaged in the endless pursuit of freedom. The work of liberation precedes any type of diversity, equity, or inclusion investment. Unfree minds will only replicate that which they can envision. We dream without limits.