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Understanding Intersectionality
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” -- Audre Lorde
A Dangerous Kind of Unselfishness
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feeling Anxious?
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." – Audre Lorde
Join My Free Webinar Tomorrow!
"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach." -- Gloria Steinem
How Can We Defeat Stereotypes?
"Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time."
-- Anna Quindlen
Talking Across Differences This Election Season
"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." – Mohsin Hamid
Why Talking About Generations Matters
“There are no myths about Generation X. It's all true."
- Chuck Klosterman
How are you recognizing Hispanic American Heritage Month?
“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.”
- Roberto Clemente
It’s My Birthday — Join the Celebration!
"Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want." – Frances Moore Lappe
How to Survive Election Season
"I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done." – Barack Obama
Join My Free Live Webinar!
"Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?" — Michelle Obama
Labor Day and the Ongoing Fight for Equality in the Workplace
"Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?" — Michelle Obama
3 Tips for Interrupting Unconscious Bias
"The single story creates stereotype and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete, they make one story become the only story." – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Why I Couldn’t Vote. And You Can.
“My vote is my voice…and the voice of all who struggled, so that I may have my voice.” — Lydia Obasi
5 Steps for Communicating Across Differences
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
— Audre Lorde
Paris Olympics and Defeating Stereotypes
"The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does."
— Kara Walker
Four Strategies for Bystander Intervention
"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right."
— Rosa Parks
Kamala Harris and the American Dream
"The American dream belongs to all of us."
— Kamala Harris
Your Checklist for Inclusive Remote Work
"Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies. It is about transforming those systems and structures to make it better for everyone. Inclusion is about creating a better world for everyone."
– Diane Richler
Is DEI Canceled?
"One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world."
― Barack Obama