Episode Six (Part 2): Boards And Black Tokenism - What It Really Means To Belong
February 23, 2023
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Welcome to Part 2 of Boards And Black Tokenism - What It Really Means To Belong. In Part 1, our guests and I tell the jarring story of how we were recruited to a board as token Black members, and quickly discovered that as board members, we were not, and would never be, treated as equal
Here in Part 2 we specify the concrete actions that people and organisations should take to deal with, and avoid, Black tokenism.
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