3 Strategies to Help Women of Color Navigate Biases at Work By Hira Ali Women of color face an amplified and distinctive set of challenges as they climb their career ladders, including isolation, acculturative stress, and bias. Many women of color in leadership positions have shared how they’ve been expected to perform above and beyond the norm. People who belong to stigmatized minority groups…
Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley: ‘Women of Color Are Working Twice as Hard’ By The Press Association (Alex Green, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter) Bridgerton star Simone Ashley has said that as a woman of colour she has to work “twice as hard” as her peers in the acting world. The 27-year-old actress plays Kate Sharma in series two of the hit Netflix…
12 Books by Inspiring Women of Color By Ashley Johnson These 12 powerful women of color are so inspiring we had to make a list of their incredible books to share with you. Keep reading to learn more about these books by inspiring women of color. This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins In This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins addresses…
Foster Youth Education in Michigan The state took children from their parents — then failed to give them a ‘real’ education. Foster youth in Michigan say the classes they took in state-funded facilities didn’t count toward graduation. Some dropped out. “I felt destroyed,” one said, “like everything I did was for nothing.” By Erin Einhorn DETROIT — Michigan is catastrophically…
U.S. Bank and WNBA Partner with Project Destined By WNBA Los Angeles, CA, May 31, 2022 – U.S. Bank and the WNBA are teaming up with Project Destined to launch She’s Invested: Supporting Emerging Female Leaders, the first all-female program for the organization. The program will provide mentoring and financial education to women of color from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)…
How Women & Women of Color Can Advocate For Themselves Technology journalist and editor Llanor Alleyne offers a personal history of navigating the technology industry as a woman of color. By Llanor Alleyne In the late 1980s, a year or so before I entered high school, my father built me a desk and bought me a Commodore 64. I felt…
Mimi Dixon, manager of brand equity and activation at Crayola, spearheaded the initiative that has won multiple awards, including Toy Of The Year award for most creative.
Chloé Zhao on Sunday became the first woman of color, first Chinese woman and second woman ever to win the Oscar for directing, capping off a historically impressive run of honors she has amassed this awards season for her work on the drama “Nomadland.” In accepting the award, Zhao recalled a phrase she had learned as a child that she…
The multi-hyphenate has a new role, signing on with Ulta Beauty (the retailer that just so happens to carry her brand) as its new diversity and inclusion advisor — just in time for Black History Month.
We all know that an HBCU education prepares you to change the world and the presence of HBCU grads on Forbes’s latest list of The World’s Most Powerful Women proves that.
