Mar 14Sitting between miracles: a pregnancy journeyAs I write this I’m just over 8 months pregnant with my first child. The life ahead feels so full of possibilities and challenges I can’t quite comprehend yet. But when you have a tough road to getting pregnant — you can’t help but keep one foot in that experience…Fertility Treatment4 min readFertility Treatment4 min read
Apr 17, 2021Me & the “beauty” I owe no one.One of the best gifts I was given as a kid was permission not to care about how I looked. You could find me on any warm day: sweaty, afro puffs lopsided, edges everywhere but laid, ashy elbows, chapped lips, grass stains on my knees, running around — free. …Beauty Standards7 min readBeauty Standards7 min read
Dec 29, 2020“Grating” expectations: success, authenticity, and the unrelenting demands for conformity in white spaces.Serena Williams crip walk to celebrate demolishing Maria Sharapova to win a Gold medal during the 2012 Olympics lives rent-free in my head. It’s one of the best and blackest things to ever happen in tennis (aside from the Williams sisters themselves). I think I may have yelled “Yasss Compton!”…Race8 min readRace8 min read
Sep 27, 2020The culture of work is overdue for another revolution: are executives and HR teams prepared?As we know and have experienced, the culture of work changed fundamentally in 2020. We learned traditionally office-bound work can be done remotely — our employee base can be dispersed — we didn’t really need to be onsite to lead teams. We also learned that the work/life boundaries can easily…4 min read4 min read
Aug 6, 2020Words of Discouragement: achieving while Black and death by a thousand underestimations.I remember the first time I learned being “too good” at something could get me in trouble. I must have been in first or second grade when my teacher asked me to hang back so she could talk to after the class left for recess (the universal sign of being…Black4 min readBlack4 min read
Jul 29, 2020A case for imagination in DEI work.The subject of DEI isn’t often associated with imagination. But anything truly transformative starts with imagining. Imagination plays an important role in business. Startups and ‘disruptive’ brands know the value of dreaming and imagining. They have to create impactful, valuable things which have never existed before. Now, let’s imagine a…Diversity And Inclusion1 min readDiversity And Inclusion1 min read
Jun 6, 2020Hiring me will not solve your diversity problem.I decided not to bury the lede here: I’ve learned over the last 15 years of my career, that adding me to your team will not solve your diversity problem. At best, perhaps it is a start. …Diversity And Inclusion3 min readDiversity And Inclusion3 min read
