Teresa Cruz Foley
10 min readSep 7, 2023

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 behavior of people who were holding rainbow peace flags. I realized that I wanted my advocacy efforts to be more effective in changing people’s hearts and behavior than two dehumanizing…

Teresa Cruz Foley

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