“Your job is to make me look good. My job is to make you look good” ~ Kenneth J. Sperl Ken Sperl uttered those words to me when I was a baby lawyer. On second thought I was a clerk, a lawyer in training, when I received that nugget of wisdom. I call it a nugget of...
By Erick Garcia MHA, CDP, and Monica Ibarra MSEd, CDP We all think differently even when we look at the same thing. Our identity contributes to our schemas and representations which technically are correct. However, those differences bubble up uncertainties within us....
By Erick Garcia MHA, CDP, and Monica Ibarra MSEd, CDP “With lateral violence, the oppressed become the oppressors. We’ve internalized the pain [and trauma] of colonization and our oppression, and we’ve taken it into our communities. ”- Allen Benson, CEO of Native...
During the late 18th and early 19th century, women were discouraged from working. Young girls were groomed to get married and find a suitable man to marry and carry on their lineage. When Charlotte Bronte sent a selection of her work to Robert Southey, a renowned...
The tech industry is booming with no signs of slowing up. But even though tech is skyrocketing towards becoming a trillion-dollar industry, imposter syndrome is keeping many talented Black women from stepping foot into the dollar-filled – or Bitcoin-filled...
Sitting on a panel regarding colorism to a standing-room-only crowd of Latinos should be an anxious moment to hold space as colorism is a topic we keep as an unspoken truth passed through and by generations. The conversation part of a panel with others is the easy...
