In celebration of Pride month, our People and Culture team hosted a transgender education and advocacy speaker from the Resource Center, a non-profit supporting the LGBTQIA+ community. We shared a safe space to learn and ask questions to become better informed LGBTQIA+ allies and champions. One particular story persisted long past our morning together, and it feels appropriate to share it now as we learn how to navigate a post-Roe America.
While attending the funeral of a transgender woman who had been a victim of violence, the Resource Center advocate recounted this quote from the woman’s eulogy: prejudice rarely survives experience. This poignant message of hope says that engaging people of diverse backgrounds, and sometimes with vehement differences, will one day help us overcome what divides us.
Tags: culture • diversity & inclusion • employee engagement • Employee experience