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When teams tokenize colleagues for diversity input

I'm the only person of color on our creative team and my white colleagues keep asking me to weigh in on 'diversity' in our projects, but when I bring up how our actual work environment operates, they change the subject.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Someone is being asked to represent difference while their lived experience of exclusion is simultaneously ignored.

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