M. Gabriela Alcalde

May 2, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Alison Stine |Temi F. Bennett |Chidinma Iwu |M. Gabriela Alcalde

Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. When people’s need for social connection isn’t met, that feeling can turn serious, with potentially devastating consequences for their emotional and physical health as they spiral into isolation.

May 2, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | M. Gabriela Alcalde |Meredith Klenkel |Suman Bhattacharyya |Isaiah Thompson

Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s spring 2024 issue, “‘Stop Drowning Us, and Stop Making Us Disappear’: A Critical Report on the State of Black Woman Leadership.”The following has been excerpted from the author’s manuscript Your Comfort Is Killing Me: How to Fix Workplace Culture and Support the Transformative Leadership of Women of Color.