Author: Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez

The Buzz: Showing Your Support With Year-End Giving

The Buzz: Showing Your Support With Year-End Giving

Posted by | Dec 16, 2021 | , | 0

With the end of the year fast approaching, it’s a good reminder that the time for making tax-deductible donations for 2021 is coming to a close. To celebrate this season of abundance, we’re lifting up past grant recipients of Live InclusivelyⓇ Actualized, The Winters Group’s corporate social responsibility arm. Consider supporting one or more of the following organizations, all of which cultivate diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in their communities by centering marginalized groups. 

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Centering Abundance: Reimagining Our Common Wealth

Centering Abundance: Reimagining Our Common Wealth

Posted by | Dec 2, 2021 | , | 0

The age-old idea of cooperative economics is tied to the ‘Ujamaa’ principle of Kwanzaa. Cooperative economics is about creating values-based, people-centered businesses that are owned, run, and served by members. As a dear colleague wisely pointed out, the co-op sounds wonderful in theory, but may still be out of reach for some. In that case, supporting BIPOC-owned businesses also plays a role in leveling the playing field so that people from marginalized groups as a whole can come to the table from a position of abundance and economic strength, upending the status quo.

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By Whose Standards? On Decolonizing Beauty

By Whose Standards? On Decolonizing Beauty

Posted by | Nov 4, 2021 | , , | 0

Growing up in the suburbs of the Midwest during the 1980s, ads of blonde-haired, blue-eyed models were a driving force in how I subconsciously defined beauty. The time I spent applying eyeliner, plucking errant hairs, and curling and teasing my bangs to high heaven easily could have been spent on developing more sustainable sources of confidence key to navigating the world as a young woman of color existing in mostly white spaces — reading, journaling, or trying new activities.

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By Whose Standards: Holding Hollywood to Account for Telling Authentic Stories and Subverting Harmful Stereotypes

By Whose Standards: Holding Hollywood to Account for Telling Authentic Stories and Subverting Harmful Stereotypes

Posted by | Sep 23, 2021 | , , | 0

We have a long way to go when it comes to equitable representation on our screens — and progress can’t just rest on the shoulders of the few creatives of color in powerhouse positions such as Rhimes, Tyler Perry, Kenya Barris, Mindy Kaling, Lena Waithe, and Michaela Coel, who along with their peers, currently provide the bulk of opportunities for BIPOC talent. Allies also have to step up to do their part and the industry as a whole must organize to ensure accountability.

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Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change

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Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy and Belonging Across Differences

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

Cover of the book We Can't Talk about That at Work (Second Edition) by Mary-Frances Winters and Mareisha N Reese

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