Intentional Conversations

Welcome to Intentional Conversations, where we intersect diversity, equity, and inclusion with leadership and business.

This week we welcomed Shani Dellimore Barrax to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Cultural competence is turning the mirror outward, learning about other people.
• Cultural humility is turning the mirror inward and thinking more about your own identity and how it’s juxtaposed to others.
• Everything is relative!
• To apply the DEI concepts to real life, you have to engage with other humans.
• DEI is both head work and heart work.
• Psychological Spanx - we all think about as women the standards of beauty, there are white standards of beauty which dictates what our hair, body and skin should look like and, we as Black women, will alter our bodies to that beauty.
• Why can’t we get past race? We have to go through it. You can’t resolve something by just passing it, but you have to stop and engage.
• The only way you move through tolerance is through understanding, otherwise you stay in the spaces of willful oblivion.
• ERG’s and the associated broader programs are trying to facilitate bonding and bridging capital. You get the collective support when working with people who are like you.
• DEI is an art and a science.
• Service and progress are inextricably linked.
• Why complain if you’re not going to be part of the solution? You have to be willing to use those gifts to do something.
• Without struggle there is no progress, power exceeds nothing without command.

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