Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe Each year seems to bring a new crisis to the work of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and each month seems to find a new way to bring that crisis to the forefront of our imaginations…

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin Justice Ketanji Jackson opened her dissent in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College with these words: “Gulf-sized race-based gaps exist with respect to the health, wealth…

Happy Juneteenth! It’s official. Yesterday, President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act declaring June 19th a U.S. federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery. Juneteenth has been celebrated for over a century as Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day, Emancipation Day, and many other names signaling the…

Neurodivergence is a career maker for men like Elon Musk and Kanye West. Women aren’t afforded the same privilege. I read the title of this article on Fortune.com …

I was in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in December, and I learned a phrase that helps me reframe how I think about many aspects of my work and life: same, same…but different. I was traveling with a small group of women, and we had spent several long days traversing the mountains…

There has been a steady drip of research in the past few years demonstrating how stressed, anxious, lonely, depressed, and burned-out women are in workplaces. On the surface, the research feels old and familiar. We’ve been studying the impacts of sexual harassment, hostile work environments, gender inequities, and implicit gender…

This first appeared in Power Women by Ming Zhao. (https://medium.com/authority-magazine/power-women-dr-arin-reeves-of-nextions-on-how-to-successfully-navigate-work-love-and-life-as-a-d3d02139c7d0) Stop doing stuff that is making you miserable. You don’t have to do anything that makes you miserable. Seriously, you don’t have to. I remember when I — an intense introvert — realized that I don’t have to attend networking…

I have always disliked the term “imposter syndrome.” I kind of sort of understand what it is trying to encapsulate, but it reminds me of being in college, using a fake ID to get into a bar, and being nervous the whole night that someone was going to figure out…

“Your wound is probably not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility.”- Denice Frohman A friend of mine recently mentioned this quote from Denice Frohman, and the words reminded me of the thorny tension between healing and justice that undergirds all work on inclusion and equity. When we experience…