Untold Stories - No Longer Untold podcast: Recent Episodes
Deepa Patel
Untold Stories - No Longer Untold began with the idea that everyone - regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, needs a place to express their voice, to tell their stories of personal experiences with conscious and unconscious bias. Our goal is to help these individuals tell their stories without naming any particular entity or individual and have the world listen. We will narrate these stories anonymously, so they are no longer untold.
Emma BF tells her story about her experience growing up with an adopted brother. He is from Guatemala and she details the differences in treatment from multiple different people as they were growing up.
She talks about how this experience changed her view about our cultural bias and how she has conciousley changed her thinking to make sure her brother is accepted for the great individual he is.
This is a story that makes us take a pause and think about how do we react when we are in a no win situation. Can we surround ourselves with good advisors and share our pain to get good sound advice? This story tells us how important it is for Companies to keep a pulse on how their employees are behaving and treating others.
Trevor Jenkins is the Sr. Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Manager at ServiceNow. He is also the founder of Unfiltered Conversations.
Unfiltered Conversations is a workshop that helps guide organizations through sensitive topics. Organizations are at risk when they neglect to facilitate conversations on sensitive topics like Unconscious bias, Sexual Assault, and Gender Equality. Our workshop is a safe environment for discourse that builds unity, and helps mobilize change.
We discuss with Trevor the response to the release of our first Podcast and how unconscious bias played a factor in the responses. Great conversation and more to follow.
Untold Stories - No Longer Untold began with the idea that everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation deserves equal opportunity to achieve a good life and a good job. Our goal is to raise awareness of the challenges that many people face in both their personal and professional lives. With this increased awareness, it’s our belief that real change can happen. We hope that companies will begin to truly treat all employees in a fair and equitable manner. We hope to highlight the challenges and successes of many diverse individuals so that others will have hope for the future and so their stories will no longer be untold.