Mar 31, 2021
During last week’s episode, I spoke with Dr. Parisa Mehran, founder of Women of Color in English Language Teaching (also known as WOC in ELT), to explore how white supremacy is at the heart of ELT and how the industry functions as a racist propaganda machine. We finished the first part of our conversation discussing...
Mar 26, 2021
Today we discuss the intricate relationship between racism and English Language Teaching (ELT). We explore how white supremacy is at the heart of ELT and how the industry functions as a racist propaganda machine. We discuss how native-speakerism and passport privilege can be forms of racism. We also dissect how...
Design Thinking & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Part 2 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Mar 15, 2021
In our previous episode, I spoke with Vanessa Weathers, Founder and Principal Consultant at Conscious Employee Experiences, to explore design thinking and its relationship to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Today, she joins me again. This time we talk about how people best positioned for leadership roles may be those...
Design Thinking & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Mar 1, 2021
Most environments are not designed to include and value everyone, and as a result such designs fail to center the concerns of those in the bottom rungs of our class and caste systems. So, if we really want to value and include everyone in our teams, in our communities, in our societies, in our politics, then we have to...