Diversity and Inclusion

Being an Ally

Technology and Equity

Agenda: Attendance Code 9479

• Learning Outcomes
• Activity 1
• Guest Speaker: Drew Moxon
• Activity 2

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of today, you should be able to…

1. Describe how to be an ally
2. Compare and contrast good allyship versus bad allyship
3. Use inclusive language
4. Apply your knowledge to the Tech industry

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Reflective Listening

20 min

• Part of being an ally is learning how to listen

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Reflective Listening

• Step 1: Think about a hard experience you went through that helped you grow. Answer by telling a story with a beginning, middle and end.
• Step 2: Next, pick a sharer, listener, and observer. The sharer tells their story, the listener listens and then reflects back the story in their own words. The Observer says if the story is accurate.

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Example: my story

About 7 years ago I had a major life change...

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Listener and Observer

• Step 1: Listener recap the story in a few sentences
• Step 2: Observer, is it accurate?
• What did we learn?

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Reflective Listening

• Step 1: Think about a hard experience you went through that helped you grow. Answer by telling a story with a beginning, middle and end.
• Step 2: Next, pick a sharer, listener, and observer. The sharer tells their story, the listener listens and then reflects back the story in their own words. The Observer says if the story is accurate.

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Drew Moxon

Guest Speaker

Product & community builder. Entrepreneur. Head of Platform & Product @fiftyyears. Facebook alum.

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Activity 2

20 min

• In what ways was Drew an ally? Post in Chat
• Think about a time when you were an ally, what was the situation? How did you act?

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Ways to be an ally

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Provide resources

Repeat back what you heard to the speaker

Ask them if they need help

Challenging people when they need it rather than just cheerleading

Being a real listener

Ask what you can do to help

Mediate a conflict between two people

Giving Support

Put yourself in their shoes

Speak up when you hear injustices or aggressions

Invite them for a drink outside of work

Get educated

Advocate for people

Empathize

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How to be an ally at work

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In breakout Rooms (30 minutes)

1. You will be given a scenario in your breakout room. After reading over the scenario as a group, you will write out the following as it pertains to allyship:
• Why was the allyship bad in the scenario?
• How would you correct it (sketch out the scene with appropriate language)? Use one of the 7 examples
• Present to the class

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Scenario 2

You are a white male working at FaceBook.

It is a typical day and you sit down at a table next to two African American coworkers. You are friends with them and begin to converse. Quickly the conversation turns to your coworkers making Covid 19 jokes at the expense of two Chinese workers who are by the coffee machine. You laugh and smile. You like your coworkers and want to be accepted by them.

Your Chinese coworkers overhear some of the jokes and report them to management. When approached by management, you lie and deny that any of the jokes were said.

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Scenario 3

You are a Latinx female. You work at a Tech startup in Austin, Texas.

Bill, a white male coworker, dressed in a cowboy hat and boots walks in and quickly makes a derogatory remark about the clothing choice of Jose, a homosexual latin coworker. Jose snaps back at Bill and asks him “if he bought his cowboy hat at the 99 cent store”. Bill retaliates by calling Jose a pussy, to which you interject “shut it you red necked honkey”.

An office battle breaks out.�

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Scenario 4

You are an African American female and work at a Tech company in Georgia.

Your office has decided to throw an obligatory 4th of July BBQ with fireworks to celebrate becoming a unicorn company. You volunteer to be part of the party planning committee, to create the guest list and confirm seating. One of your coworkers, a white cis gender male, is a vet and quietly denies the invitation and leaves the building. A member of HR on the planning committee remarks that he suffers from PTSD. Another coworker states that he probably can’t handle the stress from the fireworks. You decide as a group that he should just get over it, and include him on the guest list and send the invitation.

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An Example of non Diversity and Inclusion

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article249253265.html

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Thoughts?

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How is the workload?

https://www.poll-maker.com/poll3437989x97F64411-104

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