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Why Diversity?

FDR quote from memorial "we must guard civil rights"
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Every once in awhile someone asks me how I got into diversity work. My nonlinear path combined with […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/07/2021 bias, coaching, Current Events

Calling Out, Calling In, and Finding Grace

Ricardo Levins Morales illustrates a quote by Rose Schneiderman
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If we were living in normal times I would’ve been writing about current events on my blog as […]

Amanda Shaffer 22/06/2020 Feminism, Politics

Two steps forward

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Much remains the same since I wrote this post back in 2014, and some are actually worse. One […]

Amanda Shaffer 25/11/2019 Current Events, Politics

Invitation to Discomfort

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For the first time since the slaughter of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, hearing […]

Amanda Shaffer 09/08/2019 Current Events, Politics, Uncategorized

Blindspot

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Watching the students who survived the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School become activists has both […]

Amanda Shaffer 06/03/2018 Current Events, Politics

Job vs Career

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When I tell the story of my career path I often use the image of a mosaic. I […]

Amanda Shaffer 23/01/2017 Current Events, Feminism, Politics

The Sum of Our Parts

I live in a segregated neighborhood. That may seem like an odd way to describe my corner of […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/10/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Politics

Reposting because everyone should read this

I Fit the description… This is what I wore to work today. On my way to get a […]

Amanda Shaffer 05/12/2015 Current Events, Politics

How Bias Works

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I discovered years ago that when my thoughts are racing too fast, and for too long, that I […]

Amanda Shaffer 14/10/2015 Philosophical

Burning Down the House

While I was facilitating a discussion about race this week it came up that some people “didn’t want […]

Amanda Shaffer 30/04/2015 Current Events, Philosophical, Politics

The Right to Be Right

The comment was “Anyone who doesn’t think we are living in a police state is deluding themselves.” It […]

Amanda Shaffer 05/02/2015 Current Events, Politics

Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks and the Brutal Truth of Video

There is a moment in every public discussion of race where the topic is no longer the justice […]

Amanda Shaffer 08/01/2015 Current Events, Politics

Check Your Head

picture of Cudell recreation center
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The neighborhood I grew up in appears desolate and broken. Ten miles from where I live, its at […]

Amanda Shaffer 06/01/2015 bias, coaching, Politics, The Past

10 Things I Learned in 2014

I recently saw a picture of Cinderella’s slipper with the caption “If Cinderella went back to pick up […]

Amanda Shaffer 31/12/2014 Philosophical

Now What?

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UPDATE: November 25, 2019 Much remains the same since I wrote this post back in 2014, and some […]

Amanda Shaffer 25/11/2014 Current Events, Politics

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