Nicole Lee is a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert as well as a leadership coach, a nationally recognized speaker and strategist, who regularly consults with nonprofits, schools, businesses, political, and social movements to help them improve the climate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

She is the founder of Inclusive Life and the co-founder of the Lee Bayard Group, the Black

Movement Law Project, and for almost a decade, she served as president of trans africa she worked with

leaders across the globe to advocate for just and fair u.s foreign policy she has been a commentator

on cnn npr and the the BBC, and she has also given testimony in front of the United States Congress, the United Nations, as well as other international bodies.

She's not only an attorney, but an intuitive coach.

And through this unique blend of brains as well as spirit, she has contributed to movements

across the United States and abroad to help bring human rights to the forefront.

One of her proudest moments was working alongside civil rights icon

Bill Lucy, who was the architect of the historic Memphis Sanitation Strike for a national

commemoration on the life of his good friend Nelson Mandela.

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Nicole, welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show.

Thank you so much.

I'm so happy to be here.

I'm so excited to talk to you today.

So take us all the way back.

You know, a lot of people are experienced with diversity, but you say that it's critically important to talk about diversity, inclusion, and equity all in the same conversation. Tell us why that is.

Right. Well, often, I think that people put a lot on the word diversity. They think it means more than it actually means. Diversity really talks about the presence of folks of different races, gender, ability, right? So many different aspects. Almost often I think that my clients think of those old United Colors of Benetton commercials. Do you remember those ads? Oh yeah.

Many, many different colors and also people of different races, all genders, like absolutely

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