The RSA US community hosted author David Jay for a discussion about how teaching powerful institutions to value (and fund!) relational work is critical to addressing the loneliness crisis.
How might the world change if those who nurture relationship were rewarded for the value that they create? David Jay, author of Relationality engaged in a discussion about the reasons why relational work is so often undervalued and the powerful things that are possible if our institutions can learn to value it. Building on scientific principles, this session explored how relational work requires us to radically rethink practices around metrics and impact reporting in order to resource the connections our world desperately needs.
David Jay
David Jay is a community organizer with a background in physics born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. From founding the Asexual Visibility and Education Network to working in the heart of the tech reform movement, David has centered the work of building relationship as a tool for healing and driving social change. His research and writing centers on the reasons why these important relational tools so often go underappreciated and underfunded and on how that reality might change. David is regularly invited to speak at conferences and universities on topics ranging from asexuality to movement organizing to tech reform to queer family structure. David lives with his two co-parents and two children in Oakland, California.
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