Welcome to Intentional Conversations, where we intersect diversity, equity, and inclusion with leadership and business.

This week we welcomed Desireé B. Stephens to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• You can't hustle healing!
• In a colonial project, you are treated like you are perceived.
• Your oppression may not be the same as someone else, but it is a problem we are all facing.
• Hire the people that you are trying to make inclusive - we don’t need a spokesperson, we need access to spaces.
• You cannot be an ally to all people.
• Co-creators is a word that works, ally is fighting the system.
• The first marginalization that shows up in a white society is your race, when you can get the white people engaged in their own oppression, now you’ve got a fight.
• Boundaries are what you do to protect yourself.
• Decolonialization work is about collaboration work.
• Always choose you!

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