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This is Our Body Politics. I'm the creator and host, Farai, Chidea.

We're looking at racism in the tech industry and the links between white supremacist movements and the climate crisis.

Ifoma is almost spoke publicly last summer about the race and gender discrimination.

She says she experienced at the

social media platform Pinterest. This year, she's advocating for an amendment to a California state

law, the Silenced No More Act. Introduced early this month, the amendment broadens the

discrimination categories that are protected for whistleblowers to break their non-disclosure agreements,

and it could give workers new access to telling their stories, even if they've gotten a settlement.

Now, EFOMA runs her own firm, Earthseed, which supports other whistleblowers in tech.

Welcome, EFOMA.

Thank you so much for having me.

So I realize there's a lot of territory to cover, but just give us a brief summary of what happened to you at Pinterest.

Yes. So the brief summary requires giving a briefer summary of how I got to Pinterest.

My entire career has been in tech, and I started at Google

and D.C. on the public policy team and then moved to Facebook in California. I worked on

international issues, domestic policy makers from local to international. I was recruited to

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