Proof.ofWork.
A résumé can tell you where I've been. This is about what I've been willing to do when I got there.
The work is ongoing.
I didn't come to fit the room.
I came to ask what the room makes possible. Who gets heard. Who gets protected. What happens when the truth finally enters.
I'm Dr. June Cara Christian: educator, executive coach, author, and founder of Pineapple Lampshade. My work lives at the intersection of leadership, power, identity, and the choices we make when being decent becomes difficult.
Let's talk about what changes.
I have a Ph.D. in Education Leadership and Policy. But credentials alone don't tell you how somebody behaves when the room gets uncomfortable.
My work asks people to do more than understand themselves. It asks them to notice what they're protecting, take responsibility for their impact, and practice something different—especially when it costs them comfort.
That's the difference between being able to explain change and being willing to live it.
Make it REAL.
Awareness is a beginning. Behavior is where the work becomes visible.
Reflect.
Notice what happened without reaching for the most flattering version.
Evaluate.
Examine the power, patterns, and consequences at work.
Act.
Make a different choice while the moment is still yours to meet.
Learn.
Tell the truth about the result. Practice again. Let it change you.
The work has left the room.
Different institutions. Different audiences. Different stakes. The same insistence that what we say we value should change what we do.
I am because we are.
Ubuntu isn't a slogan to decorate a website. It's a responsibility to one another.
It asks what we owe the people sharing our rooms, our organizations, our communities, and our world. It asks us to treat our humanity as bound up with theirs—and then to behave accordingly.
Now, what will you do?
You know a little more about the person behind Pineapple Lampshade. The next move is yours.