Vu Le

Former Executive Director, Rainier Valley Corps; Writer

Vu Le (“voo lay”) is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the former Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle with the mission of developing and supporting leaders of color to strengthen the capacity of communities-of-color-led nonprofits and foster collaboration between diverse communities to effect systemic change.

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Voices from the Field

Are you or your org guilty of Trickle-Down Community Engagement?

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Vu Le

Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Vu Le’s Nonprofit AF website and appears as per their crossposting guidelines here. In Seattle, if you’re a person of color and you walk down a dark alley late at night and you feel like you’re being followed, it’s probably someone trying to do some community engagement: “Psst…hey buddy—Go Hawks!—you want to attend… Read More