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Crisis Text Line CEO fired amid staff revolt

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    From the article: This is a personal blow - I chose to devote my time to Crisis Text Line with the explicit goal of serving people according to their needs, in a manner that many other well-funded...

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    Crisis Text Line, a high-profile crisis hotline backed by millions of dollars from some of tech's biggest names, said Friday that the nonprofit's board of directors "voted to terminate" its CEO and founder effective immediately following accusations of inappropriate conduct, according to a letter from the board sent to staffers and leadership and shared with CNN Business.

    The ousted executive, Nancy Lublin, previously referred to Crisis Text Line as a "giant love machine," but inside the seven-year-old organization, staffers have recently staged a virtual walkout, demanding its board and leadership take steps to create an "anti-racist" organization.

    This is a personal blow - I chose to devote my time to Crisis Text Line with the explicit goal of serving people according to their needs, in a manner that many other well-funded organizations and government agencies don't attend to. Because the people in most urgent need of mental health crisis support are young, poor, non-white, isolated, not gender-conforming, ailing, exposed to inescapable violence and trauma, or otherwise suffering from lifelong deprivation of basic human rights.

    I'd like to give the organization's principals the benefit of the doubt for creating an efficient mechanism to aid people through the worst moments of their lives. Nonetheless, I've got a lot of questions about how effective any charitable organization can be when it doesn't treat its own staff members justly.

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