Health Equity & Inclusion Strategy @doximity • Speaker • Advisor • Health Fellow ‘22 @aspeninstitute • Featured on @BusinessInsider @Forbes (he/him/él)
Oct 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles are vital for equitable product design.🧵
Building DIVERSE teams.
By including the lived experiences of marginalized folks, we increase the knowledge of social and historical context when designing solutions that impact communities.
Sep 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If your argument to not use Latine or Latinx is based on popularity or familiarity, you’re missing the point.
The point is to be intentional with our language to center racial and gender equity. 🧵
Centering racial equity:
By using Latino/a instead of Hispanic, we recognize our African and Indigenous roots as well as non-Spanish speaking countries (Brazil and Haiti) and those that continue to speak their pre-colonization, native languages.
