@jessicabantom

jessicabantom has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in June 2021. The social media accounts linked to from jessicabantom are: • Instagram • LinkedIn Besides social media accounts, jessicabantom has populated their site with: • Jessica Bantom - Author|Speaker|Coach • Jessica Bantom – Blog on Medium • Order my award-winning book 'Design for Identity' today! • Check out the new Design for Identity digital workbook! • Identify an action you can take to continue advancing social justice • Reflect on your design work in 2024 - challenge #3 • Reflect on your design work in 2024 - challenge #2 • Opinions: Facing a Crossroads and Assessing the State of EDI in Design - officeinsight • Reflect on your design work in 2024 - Challenge #1 • Ask yourself what action you’re willing to take • Consider your role in relation to the lived experience of others • Practice asking how you should be involved • Look up how cultural observances are celebrated • Try one new type of cuisine and learn its origins • Listen to music from 3 different cultures • Reflect on your identity and celebrate what makes you you • Objectively evaluate your environment • Research Black history makers in your industry • Be intentional about showing up • Consider starting a shared holiday calendar • Dear white men: Ditch “I’m just a white guy” • Ask yourself what stories you tell yourself about “others” • Create a Google Alert for DEI news in your industry • Ask yourself if you would choose to be a Black employee in your organization • Gauge the sense of inclusion you create by the depth and frankness of the dialogue you engage in • Aim to practice Platinum Rule DEI • Re-evaluate your definition of “qualified” • The Lived Experience Quotient: The Most Overlooked and Undervalued Set of Strengths • Interrupt your bias by asking “What do I know to be true?” • Learn about what’s happening in your industry in another country • Be mindful of the toll of identity-related tragedies on people you know • Make space to discuss people’s lived experience • Think about what holds you back from discussing DEIB issues • Think of ways to activate DEIB in your day-to-day work • Commit to building meaningful relationships • Think about one way you’re privileged and what that means • Identify a bias you have and challenge it • Evaluate whether you’re setting your DEI committee up for success • Think about how you’re gauging your organization’s DEIB progress • Find out about a holiday you’re unfamiliar with • Expand “work-life” beyond “work-family” • Ask yourself – am I causing someone to cover? • Dig deeper into your employee engagement survey results • Revisit your DEI “why” • Adjust your expectations about how other people will embrace DEI • Evaluate the financial resources you’re putting toward advancing on your DEIB journey • Set a DEIB goal for yourself for 2022 • Make an introduction that could potentially lead to a mentoring relationship • Challenge what you associate with the term “diversity" • Identify and connect with 3 leaders in your industry who are people of color • SPECIAL BLOG - The Lived Experience Quotient: The Most Overlooked and Undervalued Set of Strengths • Select a bystander intervention method you’d be willing to try out • Expand your awareness of holidays and cultural observances • Give credit for the work completed by your black colleagues • Document your praise for a high-performing black colleague • Interview: Work Wider Newsletter - The Wider View • Start with the basics: Who do you truly see in your day-to-day work interactions? • Register for DC Design Week: Designing with Cultural Competence • Evaluate who you’re assigning grunt work to • Real Conversations in the Future of Work • Ask your manager for statistics on promotion rates across demographics in your organization • Take note of your reaction to people’s use of language • Ask your black employees and colleagues whether your workplace is one they would refer friends to • Identify ways to properly pronounce people’s names • Start Where You Are Blog • Assess the fairness of the decision-making processes you’re involved in at work • Ask yourself whether you value your comfort over progress • Ask yourself what YOU are doing to demonstrate your organization’s commitment to DEIB • Contemplate the weight of the burden of knowing • Consider the diversity of the people you ultimately serve • Approach your employee resource groups (ERGs) about serving as advisors on cultural topics • "For us, by us:" How Black designers are combating inequity in an overwhelmingly White industry • Practice saying “Tell me more” when you encounter resistance, opposition, or correction • Identify a diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging accountability partner • Think about the macro effects of a microaggression • Consider sponsoring professional association membership dues for one year for a young black professional you know • Evaluate how you judge black people outside of work versus the black people you work and engage with regularly • Put yourself in the place of the “only” • Pledge to become a promoter of others • If discussing race in the workplace makes you uncomfortable, ask yourself why (and a few other questions.) • Take note of whose performance you’re tracking more closely and who you’re advocating for • On every call this week, greet someone who you don’t usually interact with directly • Introducing the Start Where You Are Challenge