Happy new year! I hope this year is a wonderful one for you, personally and professionally. As always, I’m optimistic that we’re all on the right side of history. I’ll keep sharing the good vibes with you every week and cheer you on along on this DEI journey.

Lately, I’ve had some conversations with people who’ve shared with me how they’ve been using 5 Things. You’re a creative bunch! I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that 5 Things resonates with you, and that you actually use it.

Here are 5 ways you can use 5 Things:

• Bring it to a weekly team meeting and choose an item to discuss as part of the agenda
• Share a story from 5 Things in your internal DEI newsletter
• Bring one idea from 5 Things to each DEI Council meeting for discussion
• Share it with someone you’d like to reconnect with - tell them that you saw this and thought of them
• Test some things out! If you see a story that sounds like something that could work at your org, then get the right people in the room to figure out how to make it happen.

My word of the year is deepen and that includes deepening my relationships with any of you. In part, that means that I’m going to start sharing these 5 Things daily on TikTok…you can find me over there @5ThingsDEI. Doing this makes me very uncomfortable, but I’m doing it anyway because the world needs these messages.

Here are the good vibes I found this week:

1. Hershey Launches 1st Bilingual Manufacturing Facility
2. 911 Dispatchers in Montreal Are Learning to Stop It Racial Bias Calls
3. West Point Will Remove Confederate Symbols from Its Campus
4. The White House Gets Its Own Menorah for the First Time
5. The Ex Manifesto; The Definitions, the Values, and the Principles of Ex and Ex Design 

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