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Since January 2009, I became a part of this year long leadership trainning through the National AIDS Education & Services for Minorities, Inc., headquarted in Atlanta, Ga. The CRIBBS (Creating Intelligent Black Brothers Seminar) Fellowship, prepares young Black gay men, to be Community and Organizational leaders around HIV/AIDS in our community. During the year, we have completed assignments around leadership, our interpretations of where problems exist in the plight against HIV/AIDS, in addition to designing a community assesment project from scratch and being able to present it at the 2010 National African American MSM Leadership Conference on HIV/AIDS and Other Health Disparities.
One of our recent assignments consisted of building our Leadership Legacy . Quickly, a legacy is defined as, "anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor." For the assignment at hand, our Leadership Legacy is how we would like to be remember as it relates to the work we do in and around HIV/AIDS. I'm generally not challenged by many assignments, so after reading Your Leadership Legacy by Robert Galford and Regina Maruca(2006), I started to write what I wanted to be remembered by and I was at a standstill... So why the standstill you asked? I answer being that I am beginning to see the importance of why we all are here... Working in the field that we work is EXTREMELY HARD on the easiest day, and on days, when we might have to tell someone news of them being HIV positive only makes it more difficult, and unpredictable. As I sat, around the table with my brothers (Jamaal, Cardel, Jermaine, Tarius) and listened to what they will (speaking it into existence) be remember for, my Leadership Legacy began taking place.
So my challenge for the readers of this blog is: first, run to your local library and rent the book Your Leadership Legacy by Robert Galford and Regina Maruca (2006); second, sit down and think about the things you want to be remembered for. It doesn't have to be something elaborate, but it does have to be something you can fufill one day at a time; and third, register to attend the 2010 National African American MSM Leadership Conference on HIV/AIDS and Other Health Disparities (SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE) and take part of the unvailing of the 2009 Class of CRIBBS Fellows, present OUR Ledership Legacies.
For more information concerning anything you have read, please do not hesitate to email or just respond to this...
Thank you all, and have a wonderful rest of your day.
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| 10/12/09 03:30 PM
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