A Convene Chat With Valerie Sumner
There’s a photo taken from behind Valerie Sumner as she stood on the Moscone Center stage last January at Convening Leaders 2020. The room is dark and you can’t see any faces in the audience. What you can see, however, are hundreds of points of light shining up at her throughout the ballroom. That’s because Sumner, then incoming chair of the PCMA Foundation Board of Trustees, had asked the audience to turn on their cell-phone flashlights — a symbolic gesture of their role as