Episode 4: Creating Change Together with Miguel Angel Acosta

In Episode four I get to sit down with none other than the wonderful Miguel Angel Acosta Munoz. Miguel was born and raised in Chicago. He moved to New Mexico in 1991. He has 30 years experience advocating for educational and social justice in poor, working-class and Chicano/Latino communities. Miguel Angel received his BA from the University of Illinois, being the first in his family to attend college. Miguel Angel’s work includes teaching in alternative high schools, developing and directing youth leadership programs, developing, teaching in and coordinating adult basic education programs, coordinating community health initiatives and recruitment and retention work in higher education. On top of all this, Miguel also happens to be an associate with us at the Center for RelationaLearning and Leadership. I met Miguel many years ago, when a mutual friend of ours noticed just how much we needed to get together for a meeting of the minds. Our ideas, passion and work have always inspired one-another, and for this reason I'm sure hearing his messages in this episode will inspire some of you. Miguel is running for City Council here in Santa Fe very soon, and I sure am glad to know that men like him still strive to make a difference. Give this one a listen if you'd like to learn why a Relational mindset is the key to creating very real change. Even politics can become collaborative again if we all take a beat and think with a relational intention.