Being ME and still being accepted
tiffany. Being able to be my true self and not have to alter my ways to fit in to certain crowds/cliques is the best feeling...
Being a part of a family
Melanie Beach. This family could be family by blood, friends, coworkers, church family and a group of people who truly care for and support each...
I’M NOT WHO I LOOK LIKE
Mark Houston. I CAN EASILY BE STEREOTYPED BASED ON A MIDDLE-AGED WHITE MALE THAT GREW UP IN A MIDDLE CLASS HOUSE AND ATTENDED CATHOLIC SCHOOL....
I am more than your categories.
Ralston Vaz. I find that in our noble attempts to acknowledge one another’s intersectionality, we move to quick to label and categorize. Most people get...
Being acknowledged for the work i do
D’Arcy Schwartz. I truly believe that Capital One cares about its employees and one way it shows is how we are acknowledge for the work...
I’m listening and open to change
James Cast. As a heterosexual white male, I’m slowly seeing that my view of the world is limited by my experience. That experience includes many...
Appreciated and welcomed for being myself
Harriet Symington. I am often in situations where I find myself putting on a facade or hiding parts of myself to fit in. Belonging, to...
Free to show my whole self
Abram Lipman. As an Ashkenazi Jew whose family emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, assimilation and, paradoxically, being an outsider...
Oriental is a rug – I’m Asian!
Carina Cottner. *Some people like to think all Asians are either Chinese or Japanese. I’m neither. I have also been called Oriental which is not...
I hurt, then learned, then loved.
Emily Quiles. I realized that painful experiences I went through as a child happened for me to grow from and I am so grateful my...
