Our community has dealt with overt and covert biases for generations. It shouldn’t have to take tragedies for the corporate world to see us. By Jane Hyun The model minority myth paints Asian Americans as an achieving, hard-working, and docile demographic that’s overcome barriers to garner success in life....
More companies are taking a hard look at their own practices—and some are leading the charge for change. Traditionally, companies have generally avoided speaking out on thorny issues like racial justice, gender discrimination, or the environment. That is, until the recent political, racial, and social reckoning in...
Men at Work: Damien Hooper-Campbell As Zoom’s first CDO, Damien Hooper-Campbell taps into his humanity. Damien Hooper-Campbell doesn’t shy away from an opportunity to be the first. He recently marked his one-year anniversary as Zoom’s first-ever chief diversity officer. He also was the first CDO at eBay and at Uber. Before...
Sheila Ellian Lewis of Pivotal Ventures is turning her marketing and business prowess toward social justice issues By Tanisha A. Sykes Sheila Ellian Lewis is a strategist and problem-solver. That’s exactly what Pivotal Ventures was looking for when it brought Lewis on board in June of this year. Founded...
Dr. Kevin Flythe utilizes a number of techniques—physical, emotional, and spiritual—to help his patients live a more pain-free life By Jackie Krentzman If you look him up online, you would first see that Dr. Kevin Flythe is listed as a chiropractor. But that description is just the...
Learning tactics to lessen polarization—with both people we know and those we don’t—can be potent personal and societal medicine In May 2020, as George Floyd’s murder ignited Black Lives Matter protests and a new national reckoning with race, yoga teacher and holistic health coach Brialle Ringer...