inspiring spoken word piece on The Strength Of Women: "Little Girls Don't Stay Little Forever" youtube.com/watch?v=pL9NYwsW… -- poem by @ErinMayKelly

“...proud to be maladjusted... I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination..." -- Rev. Dr. King Jr. #MLK #MLKDay see more of this and other speeches at MLK Center for Nonviolent Social Change youtu.be/hhCtkfImxuE

remembering all of our sisters #WomensEqualityDay -- US 19th Amendment granted women right to vote, yet was limited to white women in many states until 1965 -- thx @NatlParkService for telling this story nps.gov/articles/black-women…

Can you help us identify who else was there? @leahculver, @alightholder, @ilen, @banane, @mejarc -- for folks who have public profiles, we made a github issue github.com/bridgefoundry/bri…

Many companies helped make the first workshop happen: @Orange @slideshare @pearson @heroku @devchix @balsamiq @jetbrains @github @pivotallabs @vodpod @sustainableweb @ManningBooks and more...

Rooney Rule update: you need TWO black candidates in your interview pool to combat tokenism and increase fairness in hiring practices that will result in a diverse team bridg.link/johnson-hbr-05-18…

Scientific research shows biological differences are small, sexism and racism create difference across gender and race. Research suggests that "we need more than good intentions to change biased behavior." -- bridg.link/johnson-hbr-08-17…

interesting reference to a definition of stigma as "undesired differentness" -- "Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity" by Erving Goffman... Consider the undesirable traits that can spoil our identity and have nothing to do with competence....

Why should white men do diversity work? It might help your career, and is riskier for women and non-white men. "Across two samples (field and laboratory), we found clear and consistent evidence...suggesting that… bridg.link/hekman-2017

"ethnic minorities and women who engage in diversity-valuing behavior tend to be negatively stereotyped, and, thus, receive lower competence and performance ratings" -- in one study, diversity work actually appeared to improve perception of competence in male leaders