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We are the leading national network of professionals and organizations — a catalyst to enhance professional development, understanding, promotion and management of diversity and inclusion as an essential part of organizational success.
After interviewing DEI officers from several organizations, Rhodes College would like to get a more widespread understanding of the emotional labor experienced by employees who spend more than 50% of their time working on diversity-related initiatives.
They hope to publish their results to educate both practitioners and researchers alike on ways to support DEI initiatives and change organizational cultures for the better. They are a group of researchers, teachers, and consultants who want to help organizations become more equitable and inclusive.
Therefore, we are asking for your assistance. If you consider yourself a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professional, please take 15-20 minutes to fill out our survey. Findings will be reported within the next year. Thank you for your willingness to share your experiences.
Questions? Feel free to contact Kelly Weeks at weeksk@rhodes.edu if you would like more information.
“Frustration comes from people just not understanding. And you get tired of educating. You get tired of explaining. You get tired of selling people on your value, and you just get tired of ignorance some time.”
“I think it’s when people are not getting it. When they don’t get it. and the same people that you constantly are giving feedback to, or who you’re educating, who you’ve had many a conversation with, and they still just don’t get it, and it’s just exhausting, it’s draining, it’s emotionally draining. Because you know if you’re doing this work, you obviously have a passion for it, and you’re like, ‘seriously you’re not getting it?’ and you just want to throw your hands up, and you really can’t.”
“It is because just suppressing your emotions is emotionally draining. It takes a lot of emotional labor just to do that. So other people are free to react. I have to think about if I react a certain way, what is that going to do for the work that I’m doing.”
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By Michael Boucher – Two things really caught my attention this past week: One was a repost from Protest Therapist @ihategender (posted by Nanette D. Massey) that said: ‘Too many aspiring white allies think racial justice is about diversity, inclusion and multiculturalism. No, no, no sweetie. This is about overthrowing power that benefits you, disproportionately often exclusively..."
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