Legacy Building Within the African Diaspora
EP. 06: Legacy Building Within the African Diaspora
Building a legacy often feels personal, especially for those within marginalized groups. We look to others for inspiration and models of success and strive to adopt behaviors and habits that help get us to a place where we feel we've made it. And often that pursuit creates silos and competition within our community. Instead of developing a legacy for all to follow, we become crabs in a barrel and strive to be better than the next.
But what if we came together collectively to create opportunity and lasting legacy for everyone within the diaspora? Not by looking at others as competition, but as another rung in the ladder for liberation and socioeconomic freedom for us all. That's what Alistair Scott is striving to achieve through Diaspora Legacy Collective.
In this episode, Alistair and I talk about what it means to be radically collaborative to architect a better future within the African diaspora and why not doing so is a detriment to our progress.
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About the guest:
Alistair Scott is founder of the nonprofit, Diaspora Legacy Collective. He is also Principal Advisor at Synergy Ecosystems LLC, a coaching and connections service. A lifelong development generalist and Pan African educator, Alistair is passionate about applying a systems and sustainability lens to rethinking how we organize thriving economies and societies.
His career over the last two decades has spanned extensive community development, tourism, workforce development, sales and education; and as a civil servant, entrepreneur and non-profit professional across the U.S and the Caribbean.
He has built up expertise in fostering developing and deploying social capital, particularly when he led the build out of ProjectBasta’s Alumni Success workstream and also in his advisory of African diasporan entrepreneurs and young professionals in the diaspora. Alistair also maintains a blogs on addressing socio-economic and African diasporan themes, including futuristic takes on countries like Jamaica and Haiti and published a fictional essay in the Atlantic Fellowship’s Moya magazine.
In his early career, Alistair held adjunct teaching positions at the University College of the Caribbean, the International University of the Caribbean and the Management Institute for National Development where he lectured social development, political institutions and philosophy.
Links referenced in the show:
Substack: https://diasporalegacycollective.substack.com/
DLC LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diasporalegacycollective/?viewAsMember=true
Moya Essay: https://www.afremoya.com/issues/foresight-black-futures/homegoing-in-the-21st-century
My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairdscott/
DLC Website: https://lcollective.org/