One of the consequences of our hyper-segregated and hetero-patriarchal upbringing is that we are all at risk of becoming relationally delayed at best, with ignorance and apathy keeping us from helping to create the Beloved Community. Our journey to be whole and spiritually complete goes through the other, the very people we have likely been estranged from. While the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion has been involved in human relations work over the past seventy-six year, it is only within the past ten years that this journey has moved to equity and equality. I am honored that my personal destiny has drawn parallel to the journey of the organization I have been tasked to servant lead.