Austin Heller, Team Lead of Kennesaw State University’s Civic Engagement Team, joins Dr. Vanessa Weaver to speak about inclusion initiatives centered around whiteness and how it impacts efforts to boost diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
 
In this Episode

·      Dr. Weaver and Austin Heller discuss the definition of white centering and how it manifests itself in the workplace, from tone policing to hairstyles and attire and other actions that are deemed “abnormal” to white people

·      How centering DE&I policies around white feelings and fragility only harms people of color and fails to address their experiences with racism in and outside of the workplace, thus creating more feelings of alienation for people of color

·      Generation Z’s major political and social involvement and how it could change the way that companies approach the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace

·      How different policies such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and Disney’s lackluster response uphold norms of white normativity and heteronormativity, thus putting them into conflict with companies’ DE&I goals and how Gen Z is actively calling these companies out

·      What Gen Z is doing to influence policies and practices to improve the workplace and their quality of life

 Resources

·      Austin Heller

·      Guest’s Website

·      Dr. Vanessa Weaver

·      Alignment Strategies

·      Hybrid work: Making it fit with you diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy

·      Addressing the unprecedented behavioral-health challenges facing Generation Z

·      Gen Z: How young people are changing activism

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