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How to navigate professional spaces when hiding your criminal history

I work at a nonprofit helping formerly incarcerated people find jobs, but I lie about my own record because I know they would never have hired me if they knew.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The helper becomes complicit in the very system of exclusion they claim to fight against.

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