Collaboration happens sometimes when you don’t agree with the person you are working with. In those moments there is an opportunity to learn about yourself and how you work with others who disagree with you.

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Collaborating with others who have different skillsets or points of view can help grow you.  I love the story of how Ida B Wells was having a meal with Frederick Douglass. She had said she would like to eat at the restaurant across from their meeting place, but it did not allow our people in. 

Douglass walked in, she followed. After not being welcome and told to leave, Douglass told them who he was. Once they learned who he was, they not only allowed them to eat, but shared stories with them. This situation gave Wells the opportunity is there even when you don’t think it is. Collaborating allowed her to see things from a different perspective.

Ida B Wells understood what working with others could do. She collaborated with others throughout her life to form some life changing organizations like the NAACP. She also did work that put a spotlight on lynchings through her journalistic work.

Wells did not focus on one thing with her life, but spread out to collaborate with others throughout her
life over many things.

This month the word is Collaboration. This is the action of working with someone to produce or create something. Some of the most amazing things in the world were created when people worked together on it.