@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, Research Black history makers in your industry, 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, Ask yourself if you would choose to be a black employee in your organization, 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.