Most institutions say they want to be inclusive. Few know how to actually get there and even fewer survive the attempt.
In How To Share Power: A Practical Guide to Building and Sustaining Multiracial, Multicultural Institutions, Karla Monterroso draws on decades of experience building and advising multiracial, multicultural institutions to offer something rare: a practical guide that doesn’t flinch from the real work of redistributing power.
It's time for a conversation about power.
How to Share Power distills the collective experiences of leaders in multiracial, multicultural institutions. After a decade of advising organizations across sectors, Karla Monterroso names the patterns that show up in every MRMC: trust ruptures, hidden pain, decision-making dysfunction, and the shame and secrecy that keeps us from solving any of it.
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This book is for every leader who has felt isolated by these struggles, and for every American who wants to live in a multiracial democracy that actually works. It offers the frameworks, language, and practices to build institutions that can hold the future we say we want.
Who this book is for
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You live the gap between values and structure, and you're tired. This gives you language, frameworks, and permission to name power.
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You're equipping tomorrow's leaders. This gives them the frameworks, language, and tools to build institutions that actually hold.
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You sense your institution's grip on power is broken. The frameworks give you a practical way forward.
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You hold power and want to share it. This book meets you where you are and moves you toward structural change.
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How the lived experience of power shapes our assumptions, our risks, and our reactions.
Every leader is balancing impact, culture, and money. The bets we make and the costs we name.
Old power wants exclusion and deference. New power wants inclusion and certainty. Can we balance both?
Where risk lives, where resources flow, and what an emotionally honest power analysis can reveal.
Why MRMCs must hold both the mission work and the culture work, without sacrificing either.
A practical method for naming where decisions live, and who is accountable for them.
Karla offers us a set of gifts grounded in lived experience as a leader, a board member, and a trusted partner to organizations across sectors. She is offering a path toward building institutions that can actually hold the future we say we want.”
carmen rojas, phd
—president & ceo, marguerite casey foundation
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Meet the Author
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Karla Monterroso is the founder of Brava Leaders and a consultant to organizations building multiracial, multicultural institutions across the country. She is first-generation everything: first-generation college student, first-generation salaried worker, first-generation CEO, first-generation entrepreneur. Her mother is from Mexico, her father from Guatemala, and she grew up in a low-income community just outside Los Angeles.
She has been part of scaling four social change institutions and has advised dozens of nonprofit organizations and hundreds of leaders on building diverse, gender-inclusive teams. After living through long COVID and a year in bed, she wrote a viral Medium piece on the quiet civil wars happening inside progressive organizations. This book grew out of the flood of responses that followed.
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