Brave New Work 83. Building Antiracist Organizations with Akilah Cadet

Throughout the past year, many organizations have taken long-overdue looks in the mirror and started the hard but necessary work of examining how they perpetuate systemic injustice. (That includes us.) The Ready works in systems design, which means that in a world wracked—and in some ways defined—by inequity, it’s our job to look at how the systems we build contribute to supremacist thinking and behavior.

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans learn (and unlearn) from Dr. Akilah Cadet, an executive coach and the founder and CEO of Change Cadet, about the overlap between dominant systems and white supremacy, what being an antiracist company actually means, and how to still hold space for lightness and humor.

Learn more about Akilah and her organization, Change Cadet, here on her website.

Mentioned references:

• Capri-Sun
• Clueless "Rolling with the homies"
• JEDI: BNW Ep. 40 with Sharan Bal
• human centered design
• "culture as an iceberg"
• Browndages
• I-580 truck ban
• Olivia Pope, from Scandal
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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