Dr. Darlene Brown is an independent consultant with 35 years of experience in education. She has worked at the elementary, secondary, and higher education levels. Additionally, she has served in leadership roles at Institute of Research. Dr. Brown is the Founding Director of the New Beginnings Charter School Network and a Founding Member of Edward Hynes Charter School Board of Directors in New Orleans. All this work is done in the midst of Hurricane Katrina. 

She is a chapter author in the recently published book, “Called to Sankofa: Leading In, Through and Beyond Disaster―A Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans”. More recently, Dr. Brown served as a member in a diversity and inclusion council and the chair of the employee research group, focused on increasing opportunities for employees from diverse ratio and ethnic backgrounds at a large international research organization. 

 

In this episode Dr. Gaye Lang and Dr. Darlene Brown discuss:

• Equity is the foundation 
• Application rather than “awareness”
• Prioritizing equity in the workplace
• Transparency, honest, and self-reflection 

 

Key Takeaways: 

• Equity is the foundation - it will make someone feel they belong, that they are whole and that they are supported.
• People have got to step up and stand firm in not only promoting equity practices, but actually practicing equity. 
• Our concern shouldn’t be on providing the same things for everybody, but on making sure that each one has what they need in order to have an equal opportunity for success. 
• Be honest about how far do you have to go in terms of applying equity in the workplace. Look at the data, numbers don’t lie - they’ll reveal the reality of equity in your organization, whether it exists or doesn’t at the moment. 

 

“Equity in the workplace is the thing that will allow diversity and inclusion to come to fruition… unfortunately sometimes we focus on the diversity piece which is we can visibly see that we have diverse cultures and races and beliefs and genders there…but equity practices say that we have opportunities that are for everyone in the workplace. ” - Dr. Darlene Brown

 

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darlene.brown.5030

 

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KEY WORDS: 

Diversity, inclusion, equity, tolerance, racism, bias, implicit bias, and explicit bias.  

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

 

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