Author: Scott Ferry

Special Edition: Support Black-owned Businesses This Season

Special Edition: Support Black-owned Businesses This Season

Posted by | Nov 26, 2020 | , | 1

This year many of us will be eschewing going out shopping on Black Friday, instead staying in our soft pants and eating Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches and just one more piece of pie, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be shopping at all. As we barrel into a likely isolated winter, and having already lost over 100,000 small businesses, it’s more important than ever that we support independent retailers as they attempt to weather these incredibly difficult times.

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DEI Beyond the Boardroom: Environmental Justice is Racial Justice

DEI Beyond the Boardroom: Environmental Justice is Racial Justice

Posted by | Nov 12, 2020 | , , | 0

While it has receded into the background recently, environmental justice — a broad umbrella covering issues such as climate change, corporate waste, water cleanliness, oil drilling and urban green spaces — is a critical component in ensuring equity and justice long-term. To put a finer point on it: environmental justice is racial justice.

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DEI Beyond the Boardroom: Leading with Your Why—Using Collective Purpose to Drive Systemic Change

DEI Beyond the Boardroom: Leading with Your Why—Using Collective Purpose to Drive Systemic Change

Posted by | Oct 15, 2020 | , , | 0

There is an inherent tension in DEIJ in identifying and leading with our ‘whys’. What drives an individual often stands at odds with what may drive a company. In order to mitigate, or even eliminate, these potential problems, it’s crucial that organizations know and name their own why for doing equity and inclusion work. Adapting Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework is a particularly useful place to start when identifying your collective why. 

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DEI Beyond the Boardroom: How Organizations Can Help Upend Mass Incarceration

DEI Beyond the Boardroom: How Organizations Can Help Upend Mass Incarceration

Posted by | Sep 17, 2020 | , , | 0

Voter suppression in the form of felon disenfranchisement is not the end goal of mass incarceration, but it is a related secondary effect and speaks to the larger consequence of mass incarceration: the further oppression and marginalization of the poor and of BIPOC. Mass incarceration is inequity and injustice made manifest. What, then, can an organization that is truly committed to equity and justice do? 

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Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: 10 Actions To Take Now

Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: 10 Actions To Take Now

Posted by | Aug 27, 2020 | , , | 0

For two and a half months, we’ve used this space to discuss how to move beyond surface-level discourse and performative allyship to effect genuine change in DEI spaces. We must move beyond the rhetoric and implementing new strategies that center racial justice. Here are practical ideas and strategies, based on our series, that you can implement to move beyond the talk and actually make change through action. 

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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

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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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