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When professional advancement means becoming complicit in systems you wanted to change

I got promoted to head of diversity and inclusion and my family thinks I made it, but I know I am just the face they put on the same broken systems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional roles designed to address inequality often co-opt advocates into maintaining the very systems they sought to transform.

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