Being an Ally to Black Colleagues and Peers

What can we do to promote and raise up more black people to leadership positions in our company?

I'd like to know what my organization is *specifically* doing to address these concerns. What *actions* are they taking?

Just wanting to know how I can be supportive of my colleagues

What are good resources I can use to educate myself about this topic to better speak to it so I can be a powerful ally

What can I start doing to teach my toddler daughter to be an ally?

How can I educate myself to 1) support my peers as an ally 2) stand up to racism

How can I stop my white colleagues when they are being highly insensitive about everything going on right now?

Can you recommend public figures or authors to follow on social media that represent people of color and offer informative content?

I feel strongly that white people like me need to take responsibility for bringing other white people with them on the journey to becoming anti-racist, but also feel it is important to use my...

As a white man, how can I reach out to colleagues of color in this time without coming across as someone who hasn't cared about them up until now? How do you bridge the gap during these times and...

How can I actively engage in ally-ship with my black colleagues

Interested to learn more about small changes I can make in daily work and interactions as well as larger systemic changes I can advocate for within my organization as I work to become a better ally.

As a middle manager in a non-diverse workplace, I want to enact change in our hiring. What steps can I take to make systemic change when I am not a part of the hiring process?

How do we mobilize young voters?

What can I do to help locally?

Most interested in tips for action and strategy to enact change.

What is your favorite quote

What advice do you have for companies to use the momentum from these events to help heighten awareness in regards to diversity in the workplace and actually initiate those concentrated efforts to...

What type of KPIs or Diversity initiatives are the right ones? How can I implement lasting change from a recruiter's perspective?

What are some tips to facilitating conversations in the workplace to address biases?

What is our organization is lacking in diversity and we do not have many black colleagues? How can we support a shift to support others to feel welcome to join?

How do I support my colleagues that feel like they are not heard and have the full ability to be themselves

What are your recommendations on how to include black and non-black colleagues in the development of our policies and programs to strengthen our support of black colleagues as well as DEI generally.

Can you share examples of organizational goals that have elicited the behavioral and cultural shifts needed to have impact on the lived I&D experience?

What are some ways Employee Resource Groups are supporting Black colleagues (both Black employee networks as well as others like women, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, etc.)?

What are some things a company can do to best support the Black Community?

How can those non-black supporters show that they are an ally when fearing others might judge them.

Thank you for this opportunity. In the event this isn't asked by someone else, and I know this is a huge topic, but what are some of the things people in the Black Community desire most from white...

What is the best way to speak up when I see micro-aggressions take place in my office or on our slack channel?

In your opinion, what organizations have strong D&I programs? What are 1-2 things recruiting teams can do to improve diversity recruiting?

There’s been some recent discussion of things not being only a white and black issue, following the charges against former officer Tou Thao (Hmong American). Do you have any differing advice...

What self-assessments do you recommend to recognize biases? Listening is important, but what is something you wish every ally would do or say to show solidarity and fight against racism?

How do you bring up the need for cultural audit or anti-institutional racism workshop to your employer?

Looks like all my questions have already been asked by others. I am excited to learn how I can be of more help. Thank you so much for having a webinar on this topic!

What is your advice to people who are job hunting? Are there questions we should ask employers in an interview to hold them accountable, or should we wait until we get hired to try to create...

What are some good resources to drive diversity & inclusion at work?

In addition to all the topics right now, I'm interested in hearing about what youth organizations need help or what your take is on speaking to the younger generation to help them decide how they...

I run a membership for women who work online, we do a lot of virtual coworking and host events on all sorts of topics, from money to self-care, business stuff too. Our members are from all over,...

I am most interested in knowing actionable items that I can do to help, outside of protests, as I'm not in a place where I can participate in protests.

I am white, and was just assigned my first direct report, who is a young black man and new-ish to the area (recently graduated.) I want to make sure he has the support he needs, and knows that I...

I have all the questions!!! Seriously, I just want to listen and learn. No doubt I will have more specific questions as the session. Thanks for the opportunity to learn!

How can we help begin the education process for people standing strong in opposition?

I want to keep learning how to be an Ally to friends and colleagues. How to respond once I ask "what can I do for you? and how to become part of the solution. Thank you!

What are common support questions you are asked?

I want to voice my outrage but bring people together too - ways to accomplish?

I’d like to come away with some specific actions to take that will help support the black community

What are examples of initiatives a smaller organization (10/12 people) could implement as part of a a DE&I program if we are not able to financially support a consultant to help us curate one?

What are some good online tools and resources that I can share with my team to better educate themselves on systemic racism and how to be an ally?

How do I compassionately educate my white peers about apathetic &/or complacent racism?

Protests, researching, having conversations and building awareness are great action items, but what are the next steps to force change to be made (legislature, policies, etc.) and how do we act upon them?

How can we maintain momentum on issues of racial equity in the workplace beyond the current news cycle?

Our organization meets on a daily basis each morning. We've spent some time checking in about events, feelings, and more and also then "shelf" and move on to our current work (which is supporting...

How can i support the Black Community and help eliminate injustice?

Please share the transcript or recording. Thank you!

Aside from checking in personally with black colleagues, what can I do to ease the repetitive trauma caused with each new police killing?

How can we help keep the momentum going when the protesters and media have moved on?

What are best practices to navigate a conversation should someone choose to open up about their experiences that allow them walking away feeling some sense of relief and/or supported? What are...

What do you if your HR team is not willing to make an internal statement regarding the current situation in our country?

What are some best practices for educating those in my community who do not understand the injustices happening? How can I continue to use my privilege to educate those who are ignorant to the...

What steps can I take to make a difference in my workplace as an individual if management and decision-makers do not seem interested in engaging, supporting or making change?

As a D&I professional, I'm torn between my desire to reach out to the Black folx in my community and to give them space. I'm actively rallying for them in all ways (donations, doing my research,...

I manage a small team and can tell all the recent events are weighing on a few of them. Is there a way to provide them a forum to share their feelings and get things off their chest? Is that...

how do I continue to use my voice and privilege to support the black community?

I want to be educated on how I can help make a difference. Due to COVID, I'm not comfortable joining the street protest, so other ideas are appreciated.

How do I best balance using my privilege to be a voice for others, while also providing space for my colleagues of color?

What ways can we manifest frustration into action with difficult people, or people who do not want to engage? Do we opt to not focus on them as much, at all, or try another approach?

How can other minority groups such as Asian-Americans be allies to Black folks while also understanding the privileges and biases held against them?

In creating a diversity policy and program for a civic group or company, how should a statement best be approached to include consequences to ensure behavior change?

For inclusive hiring initiatives, who's the best owner within the organization? Is it Talent, HR, Leadership, or everyone?

How can I make sure my Black coworkers voices remain heard after the media storm dies down?

What are some specific actions we can take right now to fight systemic racism?

Same as everyone else, What actions can we be taking to stand in solidarity with others.

How can I attract diverse candidates to apply for jobs? How can I best empower my coworkers who are black?

How do I engage racism on social media without getting dragged down into conversations where no one listens?

How best can white women support our black sisters without it coming across as feeling like we are being a "savior" and ways to keep us from doing just that!

My company is big on diversity and inclusion. As starting a new profession as a diversity recruiter, I am struggling with finding diverse candidates for experienced roles for the team I support,...

My company's engineering team is heavily white and male, even though the leaders, recruiters and and company as a whole want to hire more folks from underrepresented groups in engineering and...

As a mother of 2, I am unable to join protests locally. Aside from donating, signing petitions, sharing resources on my social platforms, attending employee resource groups events on D&I in my...

How can I help my team, which is mostly white, process these events and use them to galvanize us to long-term action? (for reference, we develop science curriculum for K-8 classrooms)

As a small business owner I am struggling with words to include in my business vision and mission to make a clearer statement on my support of allyship I hope to learn more about whatever I can to...

how other communities for example Latinos can be ally to the black community?

My organization hopes to have more events promoting diversity and inclusion among our own audience. One concern we have is if some of our audience have different ideas and may come in and say...