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Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava

she/her

Creative Placemaking and the Fight Against White Supremacy

Creative placemaking colleagues, and friends in philanthropy — we have a responsibility in our work to be ever-mindful.

Apr 13, 2021

An image of a tree branch in the sunlight. From the branch hang three small, light-brown ceramic prayer bells. The bells hang from a thin string in a bunch, catching the sunlight along their tops.

Apr 13, 2021

A mini-manifesto for post-covid return to routine.

Notes and thoughts on what to keep, what to discard.

Apr 6, 2021

A mini-manifesto for post-covid return to routine.

Apr 6, 2021

blood in the water

on bodies and self-awareness postpregnancy

Feb 16, 2021

An image of red dye dropped in water that looks like a thread of blood, with ribbons of red color moving in waves around the thread.

Feb 16, 2021

On Nonviolence and This Moment

I was recently asked to examine “what I’m sitting with right now.”

Sep 5, 2020

On Nonviolence and This Moment

Sep 5, 2020

Lessons from my father

When I was younger, my father would sit me down at the dining table for a Bible study, or call me into his office for a life lesson. I’d…

Jun 4, 2020

Lessons from my father

Jun 4, 2020

The CARES ACT — Urgent Call for Next Steps

Thoughts on assistance for small businesses, lenders, and technical assistance providers

May 11, 2020

Image shows a lit stoplight that is green for cars, but red for pedestrians.

May 11, 2020

That Marie Kondo Magic

Ten takeaways five years after The Purge

May 9, 2020

That Marie Kondo Magic

May 9, 2020

American Exceptionalism in the Age of Coronavirus.

Authors: Jamie Schumacher is a first-generation Sri Lankan-Polish American. Shelley Wang is a Chinese immigrant, originally from Mainland…

Apr 27, 2020

$A tree broke and is laying in a river, on the left you can see its fractured, splintered trunk, the tree in the water$

$A tree broke and is laying in a river, on the left you can see its fractured, splintered trunk, the tree in the water$

Apr 27, 2020

Cornerstones (unfinished)

On the weakening links in our nonprofit infrastructure

Apr 7, 2020

Cornerstones (unfinished)

Apr 7, 2020

On Trauma, Race, and Parenting

“What do you want to do on your birthday?” Nick asked me.

Sep 24, 2019

On Trauma, Race, and Parenting

Sep 24, 2019

Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava

Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava

she/her

Author of It’s Never Going to Work, Butterflies and Tall Bikes, Half a World Away. Artist, writer, and community organizer. She / her / hers.

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