We’ve inherited institutions built around old rules of power. Building something different means changing the game.
In How To Share Power: A Practical Guide to Building, Sustaining, and Leading 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.
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 want to lead across differences without retreating into defensiveness, avoidance, or control. This book helps you understand your power and use it more responsibly.
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You may not run the institution, but you can see what needs to change. This book gives you practical ways to influence culture, decisions, and how power moves.
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Naming the seven different ways power operates across organizations.
Every leader is balancing impact, culture, and money. The bets we make and the costs we name.
How the lived experience of power shapes our assumptions, our risks, and our reactions.
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.
A practical method for naming where decisions live, and who is accountable for them.
“If we can practice democracy everywhere—at the office, in our neighborhoods—then we can bring it to life in our government, from city hall to Congress. Karla Monterroso’s book “How to Share Power” provides real-life examples of how power works and how we can use it to build a stronger, multi-racial democracy. Her book is an important read for anyone who is dreaming beyond the status quo for a better future for all.”
Julián Castro,
—CEO, Latino Community Foundation and former HUD Secretary
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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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