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USDS: Change Agents Through Firefighting
USDS pairs the best and brightest technologists with top federal employees, combining their talents on major challenges facing America.
That Is Not My Name
Mispronouncing or incorrectly speaking as well as making fun of someone’s name demeans their identity.
From Intern to Superhero
Faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive, it’s – it’s…the intern? As young professionals starting out, we often visualize our ultimate titles as Senior Project Manager, or CEO, or even President. But we don’t usually think of ourselves as heroes, let alone superheroes, even when we’re saving the day behind the scenes inRead… Read more »
What is In a Name?
American Indian/Alaska Native peoples and governments have been an integral part of the North American landscape. Against tremendous odds, they have endured great hardship and tragedy and yet remain a viable cultural, political, social and moral presence. They have taught the world diversity and inclusion values that are now ingrained in the human spirit. Namely,Read… Read more »
American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month-The Myths Live On
Next week starts an annual observance of American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month, a yearly ritual that claims to commemorate the first citizens of this country. Although most federal agencies do their best to educate the non-Indians on their staffs about the contemporary nature of Native people in this country, the following myths about our firstRead… Read more »
Disengagement Trifecta
For American Indian/Alaska Native employees, it is one, two, three strikes you’re out at the old engagement ballgame.
The American Indian/Alaska Native Disadvantage
The Office of Personnel Management released my agency’s engagement scores for 2015 last week and for the second year in a row, Asian Americans are the highest engaged group of employees by race at 72%. For the 7th year in a row, my group, American Indians/Alaska Natives had the lowest engagement levels by race ofRead… Read more »
When Deflated Footballs Are More Important Than a Racial Slur
Recently the self-regulating, non-profit called the National Football League (NFL) that does not pay any income taxes added more ridicule to its shameless history when it penalized the New England Patriots for using under inflated footballs during its American Football Conference (AFC) game against the Indianapolis Colts on January 18, 2005. You may be sayingRead… Read more »
Playing the Political Correctness Card
One way white people like to exert their privilege in the inclusion debate is to create this myth of what I like to call cheap inclusion. It goes something like this. Can we coexist? Can we tolerate each other? I think I can put up with this person in the workplace. They want to doRead… Read more »