Category: Features

Setting the DEI Record Straight: Inequity Comes in Many Forms Across Diverse Demographics

From the disability employment gap, to challenges faced by immigrants and veterans in accessing healthcare and support, every issue is a critical facet of the larger picture. By recognizing and empathizing with the multifaceted nature of inequity, we can begin to weave a new societal fabric that values diversity, promotes equality, and nurtures the well-being of all its members.

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Setting the DEI Record Straight: DEI Will Save Us, If We Let It 

As we embark into 2024 — a year sure to be polarizing with a major election on the horizon and continuing global unrest — culture and cultural competency should be at the forefront of our minds. It will serve organizations not only in attracting, engaging, and retaining top talent, but also in weathering the volatility and uncertainty of the socio-political challenges yet to come.

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Setting the DEI Record Straight: Our Interconnected Struggles — Decolonization, Equity, and Inclusion 

The more my world is shaped by my focus on decoloniality and deconstructing the conditioning society forced on me, the more I have learned about nervous system regulation, identity exploration, and self-expression. I no longer seek to be good, to be perfect, to be right. I seek to be authentic and principled and committed to doing the work needed for liberation of all people.

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Setting the DEI Record Straight: What We Gain Bringing DEI to Our Lives

When someone can’t recognize the humanity of every person, it illuminates so much. Peace and justice aren’t complex or contentious – what is, at times, is our ability to consider the lived experiences of those we may be less familiar with, or those who’ve been consistently marginalized and therefore unable to garner broader media or social attention. So, who will commit to setting the record straight, taking the time to learn, unlearn and/or relearn to be able to offer a new or different perspective?

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Setting the DEI Record Straight: In A Polarized World, DEIJ Is Still The Answer

Abandoning DEIJ efforts is not an option. Only by persevering, even in this volatile and polarizing environment, can organizations continue to make progress in this field: achieving non-trivial results that benefit not only the underrepresented groups but the organization as a whole. Here are just two examples from the largest organizations continuing these initiatives and reaping the benefits DEIJ can bring.

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Setting the DEI Record Straight: Literature is Liberation

Reading diversely has helped me immensely as an activist and seeking liberation for all. Here are four ways reading diversely can help you in your DEIJ work both personally and professionally, as well as how it has helped me. Plus, I give you a few suggestions to build your reading list to start reading more diversely.

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Setting the DEI Record Straight: A Feature Series Introduction 

In the broader effort to combat scarcity-centered “zero-sum” narratives sweeping across cultural conversations, we invite writers to consider in our new Setting the DEI Record Straight feature series: How have DEIJ initiatives across race, gender, ability, culture and other dimensions of diversity supported you personally, improved your work, or benefitted your organization(s)?

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Racial Justice at Work: Not a Competing Priority

Now is not the time to pause or stop racial justice at work. It cannot be a “competing priority” that gets pushed down the list of importance. It is the priority. Your Black employees are hurting. Cutting or postponing efforts toward racial justice and equity in the workplace sends the message that you do not care about them or their well-being.

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Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change

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We Can’t Talk About That At Work! (Second Edition)

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