#12 - Amplify Their Voices

10/31/20 • 59 min

Jennifer Randolph, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) executive at ThinqShift, shared a personal experience on finding allies in interesting places, and professionally, how DEI works to benefit all stakeholders.
"And that was really my first experience of having a white male ally in the work place. And I will say, in the first 30 days of our working together and developing a rapport, he knew I was ready. And the education he gave me about what I needed to do to raise my visibility and to show my skills to this managers, so that I can get to the next level, was an education that I have never forgotten" - Jennifer Randolph

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#11 - Vote First

Stephen Hill, a black male executive, most recently the President of programming at BET, shared his thoughts on pre- and post-crack relationships with law enforcement, the importance of supporting your own, and the criticality of making it home alive.
""I'm Officer Friendly, Friendly Officer". And his whole thing is like, when you see me, come up and shake my hand. Let's talk. And so, that was my interaction with police when I was very young, because of the way the D.C policing system was set up." - Stephen Hill

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#13 - Push, Ask, It's Okay!

Dwight Coates, Chief Information Officer for Cydcor, expressed dismay about what America is experiencing in 2020 regarding racism. He shared his repertoire of actions, personally and professionally to effect the change we need for the reimagined black relations.
"When I look back, could I have done more, absolutely could have done more. To think this terrible situation with George Floyd has just really awaken a lot of us to have conversations that we should have been having twenty thirty years ago. I mean, the fact that black women couldn't vote until the mid 60s, I just learnt that. That was shocking to me, and I was born in the 70s, and to think that wasn't there ten years ago? You're thinking in your mind, maybe this was there two hundred years ago, or a hundred years ago." - Dwight Coates