I recently spent time with one of my “she-roes” in the movement, Ana Maria Archila. On the morning she and I met, she had already driven through midtown New York City traffic to do school drop-offs and fixed a flat tire. The week after our meeting, I saw her on national news facing down a US Senator in a Capitol Hill elevator. Ana Maria, like many of us women in the movement, juggles so much before she even gets to work.
At times, I have sacrificed so much of myself for my work that I have had little energy left to pour into the rest of my life. Because many of us in the social change movement do work that is so central to our personal missions, it can be hard to negotiate the boundaries. That’s why I am so committed to Family-Work Integration as a tool for helping women succeed at work.
