“Once you experience meaningful work, you can’t go back.” Clayton De Fur, the Sr. Community Leadership Officer at the Central Indiana Community Foundation, joins us this week to share his story and discuss the CICF’s strategy and impact. Following the advice of his career test, Clayton graduated from IU Bloomington with a master's degree in public affairs with a focus on non-profit management. Fortunately, he’s never turned back. In what he feels like is one of his dream roles, Clayton handles grant-making and non-profit relationships focused in areas including arts and culture, environment, animal welfare, food access, nutrition, and health. In this episode, we dive deep into the issue that CICF has chosen to tackle: Systemic Racism. Clayton candidly reveals how we can only fix access to opportunity if we focus on race. Once the CICF recognized this problem, they decided to change their mission to “mobilize” a “community where all individuals have equitable opportunity…” and have initiated change in Indiana. Including partnering with the Drink Culture Podcast to present the Seeing White series that helps attendees understand whiteness. Drink deep of the culture that surrounds you with Clayton De Fur from the CICF. 

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Clayton’s Book Recommendations
The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty is Wrong – Mauricio Miller
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Chokehold: Policy Black Men – Paul Butler
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America – Richard Rothstein
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance – Edgar Villanueva
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City – Matthew Desmond
The Family – John Sharlet
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong – James Loewen
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools – Monique Morris
The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States – Charles Colcock Jones
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America – Ibram Kendi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America – Nancy Isenberg
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race – Beverly Daniel Tatum

What we tasted
Koia Plant Powered Nutrition - Coconut Almond
Forager Project Cultured Probiotic Plant Shake - Banana & Date
REBBL Schizandra - Berries and Cream
Koia Keto - Cookie Batter

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