racism at work

Sharon and I have a conversation about racism at work.  We intend to have Critical Conversations once a month about issues which have come up in the course of our work.  This episode and as I suspect may be the case with future conversations, relies heavily upon lived experiences and our honest reflections on some of what we have heard from colleagues, students and mentees and our sense-making of the experiences.

We begin our discussions by sharing our personal early realisations and experiences of racism.  We then go on to share 4 examples from our personal databases – thanks to colleagues Jo Williams and Shabnam Ahmed of the @SchoolofShabs who asked us to share some of what we’ve heard about experiencing racism at work.

• 13:00 – Don’t play the race card – ‘not holding onto our own truth………’
• 18:30 – Accents, aggressive black staff – ‘can we not bring expression and passion to our work……..’
• 29:15 – Relationships with line managers, lack of trust - ‘Have you really got my back........'
• 36:35 - Racism from white clients/service users

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As a Māori woman, I am all too familiar with racism in the workplace (which is terribly disappointing but it is the truth). In this episode, I talk about some of the experiences I've had dealing with racism as a professional in (supposedly) professional environments. More importantly, I talk about some of the tools I use to combat it now & give you some helpful tips about how to deal with it yourself - irrespective of who you are or whether it's directed towards you or not. We all have a role to play in standing up against racism.

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We had such a pleasant time speaking with our guest on today’s episode, Rosemary Mupambwa. She is an Author of the book "Exhume or Heal: A Widow's Memoir, Getting Her Groove Back", Speaker, and Internationally Certified Life Transformational & Relationship Coach, and Retreat Leader. She has a background as a College Lecturer, Domestic Violence Counselor; extensive Mental Health working experience, and a background in Social Work and Sociology.

Rosemary is an incredibly inspiring human who has been through so much, with a goal of helping others through their struggles. We talk about her work, her journey moving to North America after her husband passed a way, and making a life in Canada. Her strength and compassion shine through in our conversation. 

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The ladies discuss the police response to Trump supporters storming the US Capitol Building and, following impeachment and a Twitter ban, why it took so long for people to recognise the dangers of Trump’s narrative and acknowledge the existence of white privilege in America, whether a new baby is enough of a gift or if women should be rewarded for the pain of labour with a push present, a new petition for the UK government to create a racial offenders register and whether we can trust companies to use the data fairly in practice, and if you can really fall in love with someone you put in the friend zone. Guest starring Marisha Pink, Author, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of United Melanin Group.

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(Video – The storming of the US Capitol – Aleem Maqbool for BBC News)

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https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/30/race-offenders-register-would-see-racists-banned-from-certain-jobs-13823483/

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In our last episode in the PIP and The Threat to Black Employees mini-series, we discuss how to recognize when things are off at work, how to be proactive in correcting them, as well as how to overcome the challenges that come with being on a PIP. Guest host  Deborah T. Owens, Founder, and CEO of Corporate Alleycat joins us in this very important and eye-opening episode!  

Shanequa speaks with Blackness and the Workplace about her experiences with her manager, the PIP, and the after-effects. 

We continue our conversation by talking with Clarie as she talks about her experiences with a problematic manager and the ramifications of the PIP process. 

We are continuing the conversation about PIPS and the impact on Black professional's careers. In this episode, we listen to Danielle as she shares her story. 

Jennifer Abrams is an international educational and communications consultant for public and independent schools, hospitals, universities and non-profits. Jennifer trains and coaches teachers, administrators, nurses, hospital personnel, and others on new employee support, supervision, being generationally savvy, having hard conversations and collaboration skills.

In Palo Alto USD (Palo Alto, CA), Jennifer led professional development sessions on topics from equity and elements of effective instruction to teacher leadership and peer coaching and provided new teacher and administrator trainings at both the elementary and secondary level. From 2000-2011, Jennifer was lead coach for the Palo Alto-Mountain View-Los Altos-Saratoga-Los Gatos Consortium’s Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program.

In her educational consulting work, Jennifer has presented at annual conferences such as Learning Forward, ASCD, NASSP, NAESP, AMLE, ISACS and the New Teacher Center Annual Symposium, as well as at the Teachers’ and Principals’ Centers for International School Leadership. Jennifer’s communications consulting in the health care sector includes training and coaching work at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and Stanford Hospital.

Jennifer’s publications include Having Hard Conversations, The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicating, Collaborating & Creating Community and Hard Conversations Unpacked – the Whos, the Whens and the What Ifs. Her upcoming book, Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives, will be out March of 2019. Other publications include her chapter, “Habits of Mind for the School Savvy Leader” in Art Costa’s and Bena Kallick’s book, Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind: 16 Essential Characteristics for Success, and her contribution to the book, Mentors in the Making: Developing New Leaders for New Teachers published by Teachers College Press. Jennifer writes a monthly newsletter, Voice Lessons, available for reading at and subscribing to on her website, www.jenniferabrams.com and is a featured columnist, writing about personal development at www.eschoolnews.com.

Jennifer has been recognized as one of “21 Women All K-12 Educators Need to Know” by Education Week’s ‘Finding Common Ground’ blog, and the International Academy of Educational Entrepreneurship. She has been a featured interviewee on the topic of professionalism for ASCD’s video series, Master Class, hosted by National Public Radio’s Claudio Sanchez, and in the lead article, “Finding Your Voice in Facilitating Productive Conversations” for Learning Forward’s The Leading Teacher, Summer 2013 newsletter; as a generational expert for “Tune in to What the New Generation of Teachers Can Do,” published in Phi Delta Kappan, (May 2011), and by the Ontario Ministry of Education for their Leadership Matters: Supporting Open-to-Learning Conversations video series.

Jennifer considers herself a “voice coach,” helping others learn how to best use their voices – be it collaborating on a team, presenting in front of an audience, coaching a colleague, supervising an employee and in her role as an advisor for Reach Capital, an early stage educational technology fund. Jennifer holds a Master’s degree in Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree in English from Tufts University. She lives in Palo Alto, California. Jennifer can be reached at jennifer@jenniferabrams.com, www.jenniferabrams.com, and on Twitter @jenniferabrams.