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DEI Under Attack: A Conversation with Paulette Granberry Russell

NonProfit Quarterly

A report by the Associated Press found that Republican lawmakers in a dozen states have advanced at least 30 bills similarly targeting DEI measures at colleges and universities. Among those leaders is Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. I’m talking about gender.

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes. Another crucial factor in maternal and infant health: the mental wellbeing of women and birthing people, especially as it intersects with race. Most of the women affected never receive treatment.

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How to Address the Maternal Mortality Crisis: A Conversation with Dorothy Cilenti

NonProfit Quarterly

Among its seven editors is Dorothy Cilenti, a clinical professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dorothy Cilenti: I started out in governmental public health. How do we build programs and policies that are equity-centered and recognize the inequities in maternal and child health outcomes?

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Innovators, company founders, and other tech enthusiasts have long tried to sell the public on the idea that AI will create a path to a brighter future. The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women.

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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. Others wrongly believe that bisexuals enjoy all the same social privileges and advantages that straight people have.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Those who faced barriers in the offline world along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity or ability would find new opportunities. The digital economy thus has not only failed to deliver, but has exploited racial/ethnic, gender, and geopolitical hierarchies in the process. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Billions of dollars in energy infrastructure and its associated profits are no longer hoarded by a handful of wealthy investors, utility executives, and shareholders; instead, they are deployed for shared prosperity to eliminate the racial wealth divide and to create meaningful, joyous, living-wage work for those formerly excluded from the economy.

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