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Gen Z and Y on D&I: Empowering Myself to Confront Modern-Day Racism

Gen Z and Y on D&I: Empowering Myself to Confront Modern-Day Racism

Posted by | Jun 17, 2021 | , | 0

I am adopted and was raised in a small town by my adoptive family. My enduring, supportive and loving family, worked hard to provide me with the social and emotional tools required to build a really good life. Even though my adoptee-brain makes it difficult for me to process why someone would choose to love me, the continued reassurance, backed by constant action, gave me extra bursts of strength when I needed them most. As I grew older, I began to realize that the way I was raised stirred up a lot of turmoil inside of people who couldn’t stomach the idea of a biracial person living what they deemed to be a “white” life. 

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A Point of View: We Cannot Look Away From Inequities and Discrimination in Healthcare

A Point of View: We Cannot Look Away From Inequities and Discrimination in Healthcare

Posted by | Jun 10, 2021 | , | 0

I tell this story to give a face to the idea of medical discrimination. I honestly can’t say that the doctors didn’t take me seriously because I was a woman or a Black woman. But I can say that the medical professionals didn’t believe me. I can say that had that nurse not said what she said, I may not have returned. My son could have died. I could’ve died. As bizarre as it sounds, I have had Black women say that medical professionals told them that Black women couldn’t feel pain. Why wouldn’t we be able to feel pain as human beings? 

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The Buzz: What was meant for bad turned for good: How My Experience with COVID Launched a New Career Path

The Buzz: What was meant for bad turned for good: How My Experience with COVID Launched a New Career Path

Posted by | Nov 19, 2020 | , | 0

“Mrs. Williams, your COVID test was positive.” It seemed like time stopped when the representative from the local health department called and said those words. How can this be? While one may be symptom free after a 14-day quarantine (more or less), I didn’t realize the toll COVID would take on my mental health. As an extrovert, the isolation from family and friends was a huge adjustment.

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Unpacking the Conversations that Matter: Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps When You Don’t Have Boots & Redefining “Hard Work”

Unpacking the Conversations that Matter: Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps When You Don’t Have Boots & Redefining “Hard Work”

Posted by | Dec 5, 2019 | , , | 1

When we focus on the individual in our society’s view on “worked hard,” we are losing a vital but often overlooked part of success: the “Us.” We need to celebrate, recognize, and act upon the fact that an individual’s success is intertwined with the systems we live in — systems that in turn have their own unique conglomeration of power, privileges, opportunities, and adversities. Think about it this way: How can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you never had “boots” to begin with?

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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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