Ep. 161 — How Employers Leave Black Workers Behind

Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, we're talking to Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield, a Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, who is tackling the ways some organizations are failing black workers and how we can move the needle towards more inclusiveness in the workplace. As mentioned on the show: How Organizations Are Failing Black Workers — and How to Do Better by Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield/Harvard Business Review You can preorder her forthcoming book "Flatlining Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy" here. And for giggles, check out SNL's Black Jeopardy Skit here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey!
0:19.7	Hey, hey!
0:21.9	We're back, we're Black, we're brown, it's Tiffany!
0:25.0	Sup guys, it's Mandy.
0:26.0	This is kind of Rando, but I think I'm going to, for you know, Valentine's day,
0:29.9	is coming up.
0:30.9	And I secretly think, like Superman told me he didn't care if I changed my last name,
0:34.3	but I think he does care, because I think I caught him on the phone.
0:36.9	Like, you know, not your hustling, but you know, the walls are thin.
0:40.7	And I think that, like, he, because he was like, no, man, keep your name, you know, like,
0:45.9	I don't, you know, I don't care, it doesn't matter.
0:47.8	But I think he does care.
0:49.2	So I think for, for Valentine's day, I'm going to surprise him, be like, I'm applying for
0:53.6	a name change.
0:54.6	Oh, wow.
0:55.6	Is it like, is it a formal application, like with social security, is that what you mean?
1:00.0	I don't even know.
1:01.0	I'm a goodness.
1:02.0	I, there's some, like, I was like, it's funny because it made me think of it because,
1:07.4	I mean, not just your hustling him, but there was this ad they came up with my, my,
1:11.0	um, IG feed and a friend of mine used them.
1:13.6	It's like this, you pay like 150 bucks and like, they take care of all the, whatever
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