Queen Grant is a Shreveport Native and has 19 years of higher education experience. She currently resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she is the Director of Communications and Outreach for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. Queena has managed several successful missions teams at post-secondary institutions across Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. She has brought great energy and commitment to establish innovative strategies and successful programs for engaging prospective new and continuing students in the college experience. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Louisiana and Monroe in Pre-law, a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix. Currently, she’s ABD towards her Doctorate Degree in Education from Northcentral University. Queena’s commitment to serving the community is longstanding. She has been a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., for 24 years and is also a member of the Association of Career and Technology Education and the Louisiana Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. 

 

In this episode Dr. Gaye Lang and Queena Grant discuss:

• The effect of seeing other people like yourself 
• Targeting specific groups to promote equity 
• How to secure a diverse selection of people 
• Being intentional and keeping people accountable

 

Key Takeaways: 

• When people don’t see others that look like them in high places, people aren’t encouraged to aspire. 
• Be specific with your actions, intentionally target groups that are not given a lot of opportunity, focus on them and give them the tools they need to succeed. 
• When looking for the right candidates, do the work yourself. Don’t leave it all to job sites or headhunters to do it because you might not get diverse selection. 
• Keep the higher ups accountable. When they say they’re going to do something - remind them to follow-up on their word. 

 

“Be very deliberate and intentional about the population that you want to target and the profile of the person that you want to target, have smart goals. Hold your organizations accountable.” - Queena Grant

 

Connect with Queena Grant:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/queena-grant-418a2a9/ 

 

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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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