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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

Here are some of my reflections and top takeaways from the conference. Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

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Confessions of a former DEI skeptic  

Candid

After all, I’m a Black woman from Jamaica who works in human resources. It was here that I first encountered bias, when some assumed that the education I’d received in Jamaica was somehow less rigorous. Knowing this to be untrue, I disregarded it, persevered, and returned to Jamaica with my degree to launch my HR career.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 1998, during the embryonic stages of the project, this focus turned to a concept called "Reverence for Life," a non-demonational philsophy of self-development which had taken root in Jamaica's prisons. He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began.

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