What is one privilege that you refuse to feel guilty about?
In this premier episode of Guilty Privilege, Amber Cabral is joined by Ifeoma Ike, Founder of Pink Cornrows. Pink Cornrows help their clients’ needs by designing equity, supporting leaders, and (re)defining culture. Their services, trainings, and conversations weave together such as transforming the current office culture into an equitable lens.
Ifeoma shares her insights on the Black experience by differentiating equity with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and their importance. In this episode, we also explore how equity can be viewed as a choice and how it intersects with personal privilege. Amber shares the concept of freedom and how it can be seen in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in jobs. Ifeoma also explains that equity in the community has a historical significance to marginalization, as we are yet to reach full humanity for blackness. She then highlights her insights of understanding others not only through the lens of poverty but also by understanding race. Truly, we deserve to be in a space with dignity, respect, and without fear.
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KEY POINTS:
- What is equity and why is it important?
- The difference between equity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
- How equity is imagined by future generations of living in abundance and liberation
- Where does equity education begin?
- Having to fathom the freedom of work through the lens of equity within structures
- The concept of freedom and its correlation to AI and jobs
- Different perspectives of equity and success within the community
- The privilege of being able to joke about and play around with equity in life
- How equity shows up as a form of choice and uses your privilege
- How the responsibility for equity is seen through its certain standards
- The need to have spaces for division of labor, criticism, and general feedback
- How the fear of discussing colorism can be a form of privilege
- Ifeoma’s upcoming book The Equity Mindset book – launching September 2023!
- A privilege Ifeoma refuses to feel guilty about
QUOTABLES:
“I come into equity work, not from a perspective of looking at it as a workplace issue. I come into it — looking at it from a legal issue and from a research issue. So for me, equity has always been described as something you measure. It’s always been described as something that has a historical significance to marginalization.” – Ifeoma Ike
“For me, the privilege that I have is like ‘sure, invite me – you’d be surprised on what comes [out of] my mouth or I’m gonna say: ‘no because there are others and I’m gonna give you a list of the people that you should actually be reaching out to.” – Ifeoma Ike
GUEST INFORMATION:
Ifeoma Ike
Founder, Pink Cornrows
IG | https://www.instagram.com/ify_works/?hl=en
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Cabral Co. is a boutique Inclusion and Diversity Consulting firm that partners with organizations to develop strategies, training, workshops, and learning experiences tailored to your organization’s unique needs. Our objective is to aid organizations in achieving a culture of inclusive leadership, respectful communication, and authentic connectivity.
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