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 there by way of organizing social justice rallies and being perplexed at some of the…

I learned about Advanced Biostructural Correction (ABC for short) in a moment of desperation. I sat in agony at my son’s baseball game, gingerly adjusting to lessen the constant pain in my upper back, T5, and T6, to be exact. This was week 3 of lidocaine patches, pain meds around…

Professional development training in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is swiftly becoming mandatory for every employee in literally every field and occupation. Fortune 500 companies are catching on to the business case for diversity, as many studies show the real fiscal benefits of attracting diverse talent and clientele. For example…

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging are becoming priorities for organizations large and small. Some Fortune 500 invest billions into Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives, and are reaping the benefits of expanded customer base and talent. For those entities that don’t have a billion dollars to invest, disrupting…

The USA has very little legislation protecting under-represented communities in the workforce, and the little it does have has been hard won by massive civil rights efforts. Affirmative Action policies prohibit discriminatory practices in employment and education, but there are no quotas or other federal diversity mandates for employers. A…

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. He took speech therapy to “overcome” his accent, believing that it would give him more opportunities. He worked 3 jobs, literally around the clock, while…

Cultural competence is developed by walking a mile in another person’s shoes. The following list of titles engage the reader with stories that help develop empathy for their fellow humans, encouraging readers to embrace, rather than discriminate against, our differences. Compiled by members of the group Stand Up for Justice…

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 simplicity, easy to duplicate and so incredibly effective. The study took place at three different middle schools, with students who typically had trouble staying on-task…

I was researching literature on the most effective ways of helping nonverbal children to increase spoken language when I came across a very interesting article by Robert Koegel from 1988, entitled Producing speech use in nonverbal autistic children by reinforcing attempts. The results of the article are intriguing and I…