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Radically Inclusive Changemaking and Its Limits
Alex Budak’s Becoming a Changemaker expands an already expansive concept, yet his argument reinforces the hero myth that still dominates social innovation.
Ashoka’s founder, Bill Drayton, memorably coined the term changemaker in 1981, spearheading the field of social entrepreneurship. The phrase galvanized a broader community of social change actors and then proliferated across the culture. Its verb form, changemaking—the practice of fixing broken systems to build a better world—has become a global preoccupation with a bipartisan appeal capable of uniting diverse actors. The usage of both forms has become so ubiquitous across sectors at this…