S1E4 – Inner solid structures as the foundation to achieve beauty and justice | Sebabatso Manoeli

Creativity Pioneers

“Beauty, justice, and structure”, three words that are part of the personal and political mission to impact society by Sebabatso Manoeli, Senior Director at Columbia University for the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity program, and also in charge of the podcast “Race Beyond Borders”. Manoeli shares her vision on how beauty relies on structure, as well as social change requires a structure: an inner and powerful structure that allows us to endure challenging times. On top of this inner structure, when individuals work together as teams, they use structures to bring about the kind of change they envision. “We make sense of the world through narrative: something has a start, a middle, and an end, and that narrative shapes all of our logic, our thinking, our doing - said Manoeli - the power of these ideas of beauty that drives justice or creativity for social change is the narrative potential of it all.” KEYWORDS: Justice – Beauty - Structure WEBSITE: Follow her podcast “Race Beyond Borders” by Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity on racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/race-beyond-borders @Smanoeli on Twitter