How to Prioritize Learning about Diversity & Inclusion When You Have No Time
At oneTILT, clients often ask us: how can I make our work more inclusive? How can we just make things better — for everyone? Asking how is one of the most powerful places to start, even if the road to inclusion is messy, long, and complex. Inclusion requires reflection and learning, but as busy professionals, we don’t always have a ton of time on our hands. So we’ve put together a list of our top resources that center marginalized voices and are guaranteed to make you think! The best part? You can engage in these one-tiny-inclusive-little-things during your morning commute. Check out the list of these oneTILTs below:
Listen
- I spend a ton of time traveling for work, so I’m obsessed with podcasts. One of my favorites is Still Processing with Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham (I seriously can’t stop listening to it!). I also recommend listening to “We Watch Whiteness”, “Asian Americans Talk About Racism”, “We Need Bad Women”, and “We’re Queer — and Apparently So Is Everybody Else”. You can learn so much from listening to folks who are different than you.
Watch
- Everyone has a go-to TED Talk, but how about an entire playlist? Check out the “Bridging Cultural Differences” TED Playlist that offers 9 talks that tackle everything from bias to Islamophobia to immigration to language.
- My co-founder Andrew loves movies! In The Hollywood Reporter’s Full Uncensored Drama Actress, Thandie Newton (Westworld) and Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) talk about representation in Hollywood. They share their thoughts on themes that we touch on in our workshops like intersectionality, invisibilized identity, objectification, and internalized oppression.
Read
- For those of us who take the train to work, reading is a great option. Leadership requires that we continually examine our identities and histories. Recent reads include Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race, and Jeff Chang’s We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation.
About oneTILT
Kimberly Diaz and Andrew Daub co-founded oneTILT to flip the script on leadership training. Their work is rooted in concrete skill development, design thinking, and an unapologetic focus on racial equity. They partner with organizations around the country to deliver workshops, long-term engagements, and coaching services that are relevant, differentiated, and accessible. In March they officially launched the tiltForward fellowship — a program for diverse education leaders in Washington, DC.
