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When workplace diversity efforts pigeonhole your professional identity

My company wants me to lead diversity initiatives because I am Latina but I got hired for my engineering skills and this feels like a career trap.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Being recruited for ethnic representation rather than expertise can limit career growth and reduce professional identity to demographic categories.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

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