How do our schools center other voices when the focus of our work is on the top of the pyramid, and that skews white? Devon Wilson-Hill (Shady Hill) and Zachary Sheets (Community Music Center of Boston) have held significant tenures at their organizations through a time where the public at large is recommitted to a modern civil rights movement. Progressively White spaces often get in trouble for getting in their own way of progress yet these two century old institutions have been eager and actively working at shifting the conversation. CMCB with a Black director has shifted Board Governance and Composition of leadership while continuing to raise money and increase their individual donor portfolio. Shady Hill School values racially and socially economically diverse presence on the board and has rewritten the Board bylaws to be explicit while launching major gift initiatives. When the question is: how does organization framing center people of color when the majority of your audience skews white? What explanatory commas do you have to make, versus (rightly or wrongly) choose to make." Come learn what these two institutions are choosing to make to be bold, leaders and changemakers.