Kailee Scales - Creating Global Connections

<p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, our guest is Kailee Scales. Kailee has been on multiple national publications and now sits at the top of running Pencils of Promise. She served as the first Managing Director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and supported the development of a solid infrastructure around the decentralized organization, allowing it to grow from a hashtag to a political and cultural powerhouse for Black people worldwide. Stay tuned and learn more about Kailee!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:18] </span><strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a stranger in a cafe in the middle of a pandemic, I have something very important to say if I talk to you. I like to kind of keep to myself. Once we start talking, we could talk. But I'm not one to strike up a conversation.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:48] I'm a strange paradox. I am very engaging, I love people, and I love talking to people. But I can be nervous. I think all of us have a bit of a paradoxical little part of our personality.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">[4:00] </span><strong>Kailee’s career</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, I'm a mom. First thing when I wake up in the morning, it's school. Then I go right into my work, and sometimes I just kind of look at my work a little bit as I'm getting ready for school because I love what I do so much, particularly with Pencils of Promise- the organization that I lead. It is just so empowering, especially when we feel a little uncertain and all over the place; it's great to be able to do something to help the world.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:22] </span><strong>World movements</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All the things that happened in my formative years just pointed me toward a world change of transformation. I realized I was familiar with a lot