Pressure and Privilege: When You’re the Only One in the Room
summary
Organizers describe concrete outcomes: they create and scale an employee resource group B.U.I.L.D. (Blacks United in Leadership and Diversity) from secret lunches to an official DNI community in 2017, run retention-focused outreach to HBCUs, launch a Martin Luther King Jr. day of service and a mural, and form partnerships with Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Shaw University. They report one of three Black recipients among 276 chairman’s awards and institute an allyship workstream to train non-BIPOC allies. Pressure to perform for representation repeatedly shapes decisions.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:32Introductions
- 2:38Pressure and Privilege
- 6:20Takeaways
- 8:02Pressure and Privilege Lesson 1
- 11:00Red Hat Chairmans Award
- 13:15Korens parents
- 16:42Black majority vs black minority
- 22:10Psychological challenges
- 28:03Building a community
- 34:41Finding and using your voice
- 40:41Final thoughts
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