Capita Chief Strategy Officer Caroline Cassidy speaks with LaDon Love, Executive Director of Spaces in Action, to talk about communities, the power of storytelling and listening, and how we build trust.
Capita Chief Strategy Officer Caroline Cassidy speaks with LaDon Love, Executive Director of Spaces in Action, to talk about communities, the power of storytelling and listening, and how we build trust.
Caroline Cassidy
Caroline directs overall strategy for Capita, which includes public engagement, communications, and organizational development.
For two decades, Caroline has been a leader in the think tank, global development and not-for-profit sectors where she has orchestrated initiatives aimed at shaping a more just and humane world. She is a strong advocate for embedding a deeper approach to communications throughout an organization or project- from language, relationships, and framing to deep listening, behaviour change, and values.
Caroline previously set up and led the strategic communications team for the UK-based think tank ODI, with a focus on policy engagement. As a consultant, she has provided strategic council to a diverse range of clients including the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, the OECD Early Childhood Education & Care team, Oxford Policy Management, Rodeemos el Diálogo, the World Health Organization, On Think Tanks and Open Society Foundations. She has also created and implemented a major and individual donor strategy for the media organization tve and worked in TV production at the BBC.
LaDon Love
LaDon Love is the Executive Director of SPACEs In Action. SIA is a multi-ethnic membership based community organization that focuses in the District of Columbia in wards 7 and 8, as well as, Maryland in Montgomery County. In 2019, SIA was a lead organization in the campaign that secured $15.8 million in the DC budget for childcare and health services for DC families raising children from birth to three.
Love has over two decades of experience in community, leadership and organizational development. She uses grassroots organizing to engage in local, state and national campaigns to affect public policy. She works with local leaders to identify issues and develop solutions to improve the lives of low and moderate income families and their community.
She is also a published photographer who uses her photography skills to tell the story of those directly impacted, bringing her subject’s personality to the photography experience.