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We start the new calendar year with Makeda Keegan from Northeastern University, Chair of the Board, and Executive Director of Amplify. Amplify’s work is pivotal in creating both culture and opportunity for underrepresented voices in technology. We talk a lot about the difference between focused action that makes change for underrepresented people and performative actions that are well intended but don’t change business culture, operations, or systems to accommodate the new perspectives and experiences that these people represent. What emerges in the conversation is a better understanding of how to rest intensive recruitment efforts targeted at underrepresented communities in the context of more significant organizational transformation goals – including appropriately accounting for the length of time necessary to accomplish them truly. We also unpick how networks that serve underrepresented groups facilitate conversation, connection, and additional assessments of how every business is doing along the way, which leads us to how networks can better create accountability mechanisms by first articulating specific, desired outcomes that aren’t simply “more.” Lastly, we cover volunteering as a self-care mechanism, along with contributing back to our communities. Tracy’s dog also crashes the discussion, and we all realize that there’s a separate politics and pop-culture recording that we need to make together. Our first episode of season 2 is absolutely a conversation that sets the tone for a brilliant start to 2022!
 
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Makeda Keegan, Chair of the Board, and Executive Director Amplify
 

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