ArchLIGHT Summit

So often the pressures of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) work and implementation fall onto persons of color to recognize, evaluate and dismantle non-inclusive systems. This pressure creates additional stressors and otherness for those employees without any guranteed effort or effect on the system itself. This presentation will illuminate some of the unintentional ways efforts to make change can in fact reinforce systemic problems and evaluate ways that allyship can insert relief and support to the underrepresented in the workplace. Using Chromatic as an example, Nick Albert and Lauren Dandridge establish that actionable diversity, equity and inclusion strategies must involve all allies for progression of the entire system.