Learning Library Business & Finance, Purpose

Embracing Diversity

This class with Monique Melton focuses on diversity, inclusivity, and taking a long, hard look at how your business succeeds and fails on each front – and what to do about it.

The course outline is as follows:

What is diversity

1. What is:

• Race
• Gender
• Sexuality

2. Why diversity matters :

• Socially/relationally
• Economically
• Physically
• Spiritually

3. What we’ve lost :

• Trust
• Richness of culture
• Economic viability (colonization, wage gap)
• Humanity
• Community

4. What we stand to gain/is there hope

5. What we must consider when achieving diversity / What challenges do we face with diversity

• (Intersectionality)
• Anti-racism
• White washing history
• Implicit basis
• Microaggression
• Complicity
• Tokenism

6. How to use what you’ve got/how to embrace it in business and life