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[Video] Tamara Fields: Moving Beyond Conversation to Mitigate Inequalities

July 23, 2020

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How can we mitigate inequalities in our own organizations and keep the momentum for racial justice going? Tamara Fields, Austin office managing director at Accenture, shares how we can hold each other accountable to a conversation on equality – and ways to take action to pave the way toward a more inclusive and human workplace for everyone.

Here are some of the readings, videos, and songs Tamara and Steve recommend in this episode:

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson
“The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
“White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo

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