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When committees include people with different lived experiences of the issue

Our workplace committee on harassment policy has three people who experienced harassment here and four who haven't, and the conversations keep getting stuck because we're weighing things like 'due process' and 'innocent until proven guilty' completely differently.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group tasked with addressing systemic problems includes people whose personal experiences lead them to fundamentally different starting assumptions.

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“Where Are You with Class and structural disadvantage?”

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