Kristen Broady
Sr. Economist at Chicago Fed | Professor | ASU💜💛 & JSU💙🤍 Alum | AKA🩷💚| Artist | Chicagoan | views are my own🏳️🌈
- “Everyone has a potential for greatness.” —Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- “Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.” –Benjamin Banneker
- “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” -Colin Powell
- "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." - George Washington Carver
- “We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!” -Maya Angelou
- Being human means we sometimes misjudge, forget, overreach, trust the wrong person, or act on incomplete information. A life without mistakes shouldn’t be our goal. It is the response to our mistakes that matters.
- What is an office amenity today? What do workers value most in office settings? What should downtowns be focused on? We will explore the answers to these questions during the Chicago Fed’s Economic Mobility Project virtual event on Wednesday, February 11 at 11 AM CT 🔗Register: bit.ly/3YwV3m7
- 2/11 at 11 AM CT: Join the Chicago Fed’s Economic Mobility Project’s discussion on office vacancy rates featuring Samir Mayekar (Polsky Center), Amy Binstein (Newmark), @lohplaces.bsky.social) (@brookings.edu) & Danny Ecker (@crainschicago.bsky.social) Register: www.chicagofed.org/events/2026/...
- “I am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.” – Audre Lorde
- “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” – Thurgood Marshall
- “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.” —Jesse Owen
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- My Winter Waxed Amaryllis is blooming! #flowers
- “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” -George Washington Carver
- “Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.” -Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- Reposted by Kristen Broady#AI is reshaping the workplace—bringing both opportunities and challenges for older #workers. New Urban #research shares strategies and recommendations for education and training providers, employers, and policymakers to prepare.
- “The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.” -W.E.B. Du Bois
- “Sometimes, to survive, we must be made something entirely new.” - Tigest Girma
- “As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” -Nelson Mandela
- “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape” -bell hooks.
- “Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.” -Alice Walker
- “Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker
- “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” -Nelson Mandela
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- I’ve come to look forward to this at this time of year! A gourmet Christmas gift box from the best boss ever.
- “Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.” -Pearl Cleage
- I probably wouldn’t have posted had it been malignant, but it was benign. 😊 “And I think I’m most grateful for time, which doesn’t always heal all wounds, but teaches us how to be happy again even with our scars.” - Kennedy Ryan
- “The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.” -Nikki Giovanni
- Some people only notice you once you’re already shining. They don’t see all the messy, unglamorous, exhausting parts that came before it.
- The world can offer many things: comfort, distraction, companionship, money, admiration, but none of it can substitute for inner peace.
- “Are you going to let someone else's view of who you should be, and what you should do, hold you back?" — Charmaine Wilkerson
- “You don't have to wait for others to claim you. You don't have to wait for others to pick you. You pick yourself! I mean, really choose yourself every day!” —Mahogany L. Browne
- Join economist Gustavo de Souza on 11/10 at 11 AM CT to hear about his new research on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor markets. Register here 👉🏽https://www.chicagofed.org/events/2025/artificial-intelligence-office-factory
- Courage is the steady strength to move forward when something matters deeply.
- Today: “Stretch your mind and fly.” -Whitney M. Young
- Haile Selassie reminds us that learning doesn’t stop with books or teachers. If you stay open and curious, life itself becomes the classroom. Growth comes from being willing to listen, reflect, and fully experience life.
- Whitney M. Young’s quote reminds us that preparation is never wasted. Even if the door doesn’t open today, getting ready sharpens your skills, clarifies your purpose, and gives you the confidence to walk through when it does.
- 10/10 @ 11 AM CT: Join the Chicago Fed for a virtual event, Artificial Intelligence in the Office & the Factory. The event will feature new research from economist Gustavo de Souza on how artificial intelligence is reshaping labor markets. Register here: www.chicagofed.org/events/2025/...
- How is AI changing work on the factory floor and in the office? Join us on Nov. 10 at 11am CT for new research from Chicago Fed economist Gustavo de Souza. Register here: web.cvent.com/event/7bfd5a...
- “Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.” -Marcus Garvey
- “If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.” -Dorothy Height
- Excited to join the Chicagoland Chamber and Loyola Chicago this Thursday for Neighborhood Economic Development: How to Bring Impact Through Alliance in This Moment. We’ll discuss how collaboration drives inclusive growth across Chicago’s neighborhoods. chicagolandchamber.org/events/2025-10-23/32281
- “What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.” -Lucille Clifton
- “To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.” -Haki R. Madhubuti
- We’re so used to thinking change will come from someone else or some better moment. But June Jordan was telling the truth: nothing is missing. The people, the power, the clarity…we’re it. History doesn’t shift when the “right” person arrives. It shifts when we stop pretending that person isn’t us.
