Though, while I want to be an instrument of change, the ever present issue of job security looms over our ability to speak up in this conservative, capitalist environment, and I'm wondering how to address that factor while maintaining our integrity and commitment to community collaboration and all the other awesome things you mention.

This is something I've been trying to figure out in real time and I think that reputation has a lot to do with it. Keeping one's head down at first and earning a reputation for being honest, hard-working, and reliable, and once that's established, being able to use that reputation for speaking out when necessary. (Though at the same time, that reputation is pretty contingent on privilege and social status, so it's likely easier/quicker for me to reach that point than others who aren't passing for white men...) Also, choosing which hills you're willing to die on and occasionally giving up on one issue so you have more room to fight on another issue.

It's something I'm certainly still figuring out (especially with more divisive issues that my colleagues may disagree with me on, like anything related to Israel), but for smaller things, like being really annoying about subtitles in exhibitions or pointing out the new "Contemporary Issues Forum" question erases Jews of color... rolls eyes