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Why professional expertise gets conflated with identity-based mentoring

I'm the only Latina partner at this law firm and younger associates keep coming to me with problems that have nothing to do with my practice area.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Tokenism creates expectations that professional success includes unpaid mentorship based on shared marginalization.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”

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