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Tonight I told my ex-husband that I’d bought our boys suits for his funeral 6 months ago.

Once an active parent, he hadn’t seen his kids much in the past few years, though he lives just a mile away. Because of alchoholism, he…

3 min readJan 6, 2022

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Advocacy Begins Within: How Long Covid Helps Me Overcome Hustle Culture

I’ve centered my life around advocacy. I have created a career out of it as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Consultant. I landed…

10 min readSep 7, 2023

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Advocacy Begins Within: How Long Covid Helps Me Overcome Hustle Culture

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Teresa Cruz Foley

Shoes that support Advanced Biostructural Correction

I learned about Advanced Biostructural Correction (ABC for short) in a moment of desperation. I sat in agony at my son’s baseball game…

4 min readJan 27, 2023

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Shoes that support Advanced Biostructural Correction

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Teresa Cruz Foley

6 Reasons Why DEI Initiatives Fail

Professional development training in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is swiftly becoming mandatory for every employee in literally…

4 min readApr 13, 2022

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6 Reasons Why DEI Initiatives Fail

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Teresa Cruz Foley

The Case for Mindfulness Practice in Diversity Programming

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging are becoming priorities for organizations large and small. Some Fortune 500 invest billions…

4 min readMar 4, 2022

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The Case for Mindfulness Practice in Diversity Programming

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Teresa Cruz Foley

Target Executive Board, with 50% Women, 46% People of Color, Accurately Reflects American…

The USA has very little legislation protecting under-represented communities in the workforce, and the little it does have has been hard…

3 min readFeb 11, 2022

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Target Executive Board, with 50% Women, 46% People of Color, Accurately Reflects American…

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White with Brown Roots: On being the American Daughter of my Mexican Immigrant Dad

I’m first generation white, on my dad’s side. He immigrated to the US from Mexico as a young man and worked incredibly hard to assimilate…

5 min readFeb 7, 2022

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White with Brown Roots: On being the American Daughter of my Mexican Immigrant Dad

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Teresa Cruz Foley

Books that Develop Cultural Competence

Cultural competence is developed by walking a mile in another person’s shoes. The following list of titles engage the reader with stories…

2 min readJan 23, 2021

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Hi: A Simple Trick to Making Other People Do Better

Of all the research articles I’ve had to read in grad school, one stood far out from the others. The experiment was brilliant in its…

2 min readNov 9, 2020

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Hi: A Simple Trick to Making Other People Do Better

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Teresa Cruz Foley

More Reinforcement Produces More Speech in Non-verbal Children

I was researching literature on the most effective ways of helping nonverbal children to increase spoken language when I came across a…

3 min readNov 9, 2020

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More Reinforcement Produces More Speech in Non-verbal Children

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Teresa Cruz Foley

Teresa Cruz Foley

Diversity Equity and Inclusion Consultant, integrated wellness educator, and mom, who believes that social justice is the heart of higher consciousness

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