Welcome to the Coney Bee Podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey

and hopes of helping you on yours.

I'm your host, Aron, and today we're talking about how we should strive for equitable

design and how to harness your privilege to help create diversity with Aubrey Blanche,

director of global

head of equitable design and impact at Culture Amp and founder and CEO of The Math Path. People were saying,

oh, well, we're a meritocracy, or we only hire the best. And as a trained social science, my first thought

was, wow, that's a racist thing to say. And second,

that's mathematically impossible. Aubrey talks about how the term diversity and inclusion might not be as actionable as you might think. How culture fit may not be the thing you actually want,

and how we should all be using our individual privileges to help other marginalized groups after this.

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Is that right? A little bit. Yeah. I've been in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles for quite a

while at this point, always in the tech industry, and I've been in the tech industry even longer.

And I would say, you know, when I say I have a coding background, I think mine is both considered non-traditional,

but I think actually is a lot more normal in common than you'd think. So as a kid, if you

would ask me, like, was I one of the tech kids? I would have said, absolutely not. But I had

books on HTML, you know, that I used to play around with on my parents' computer.

I took all of the math classes that were offered at my school.

I took all of the technology classes that were offered.

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