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Dr. LMGreenhill

8 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read

Currently reviewing applications for something & have observations...When folks say they have experience working on DEI issues because they worked in African countries and are really concerned about global health...

Listen, there is *great* value in those experiences & I'm sure that you learned some important concepts (hopefully a lot about the ill-effects of colonization), but please know that if that's the lens you are applying to localized DEI work...you have some addtl work to do.

If that's your *whole experience*--flying to the other side of the world--totally bypassing your local community & the Black/Brown/Queer/Disabled/Poor/etc folks there ...then your DEI experience is completely colored by that globalized framework.

And hear me, I celebrate that international work. I think folks should know that lens is important when thinking about the dimensions of DEI work.

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I'm soooo supportive of this, but hear me clearly that these efforts already have HUGE blind spots that must be addressed if we want these efforts to even have a chance.

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Heading home from a week in Portland and the #BanfieldIndustrySummit. Good trip and great discussions, but I want share some thoughts/observations with my colleagues...A thread...1/

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