For this walk, we paired Aria Florant and Kevin Crouch. Florant is the co-founder and CEO of Liberation Ventures, a field catalyst organization that invests in ideas, people, organizations, and networks to accelerate the movement for reparations for slavery and its legacies. Crouch is a senior manager in Bridgespan’s San Francisco office where he has managed a multi-year research, thought leadership, and peer learning initiative designed to unlock philanthropic funding for systems-change leaders. 

They walked through the streets of Oxford, England, where they were both attending the Skoll World Forum, to talk about this moment in the movement for reparations in the United States and what a culture of repair could look like. 

“We are in a harmful era,” said Florant. “We will need a reparative era to come after. We will need to know how to do that. We'll need the infrastructure and the organizations, and the learnings, and the insights for how you do that at the societal and structural level, but also at the institutional level. We also need to be better at repair in our interpersonal worlds, in our relationships, with our children, and with our coworkers. We're thinking about repair, not only at the macro level, but also at the micro level.”