Projects

TL;DR: June is Pride Month, Immigrant Heritage Month, and PTSD Awareness Month. June also celebrates Juneteenth and Father’s Day. A group of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) practitioners, advocates, and upstanders who understand and appreciate intersectionality came together and shared their experiences and reflections as members and/or allies of the LGBTQ+ community, the immigrant community, the Black community, as well as the community impacted by PTSD. The key takea

The Intersectional Group planned to host an intersectional conversation, a diverse panel discussion exploring intersectionality, about religion and humanities at the end of July 2022. After a few declines, it became clear that this topic is too challenging for folks and communities to discuss in a public forum right now. Still, we wanted to capture the process and share our thoughts on this sensitive and regularly polarized topic. For transparency, here are the questions we p

From the Roundabout is a podcast program about identity, personal journeys, intersectionality, dogs, dating, and more. Co-hosts Dee and Zhou, along with their guests, share about paths that led to who they are today. What’s with the title, you ask? We like to think about a person’s identity as a roundabout: while it may look like a little island, it’s connected to many roads and ultimately, other roundabouts. The stories that happen on these roads are what shape us. At the e

Announcing a panel with Construct the Present featuring Zhou Fang On October 4th 2022, Construct the Present is hosting a panel of 4 women doing the day-to-day work of equity and social justice. But at what cost? And for whose benefit? Join us as we look behind the facades we wear and discuss the realness of doing equity and social justice work in the name of diversity, equity, inclusion, and Access (DEIA). If you are a DEI professional, a woman/femme presenting, or someone

Trends and Considerations for Employees and Employers As companies struggle with retaining employees, the issue of pay transparency (plus pay equity,) remains a major issue for management everywhere in the United States. Focus on these issues has been advanced during the so-called Great Resignation which followed the Covid-19 pandemic. The issue is also in the news frequently, from the much-publicized U.S. Women’s Soccer team’s successful fight for fair pay to recruitment woe