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Your Voice is an Act of Resistance

Uplifting Impact

English - October 15, 2020 08:00 - 21 minutes
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I am so glad that you’re here joining us today for such a wonderful conversation I had with Isioma Nwabuzor, an attorney in the Milwaukee area. Currently, she works with Robert W. Baird, an employee-owned financial services firm, supporting the firm’s US and UK transactions in its private equity business. Isioma is a DREAMer, and in this episode, she shares some of the unseen and unknown hardships of what it is like to be an immigrant in the US, how companies can do a better job of being inclusive, and she also shares information about her organization, The Dreamer Next Door Incorporated and the work they are doing to lift others as we rise.
Topics in this episode

The DREAM act

Living in a state of limbo as a DREAMer

The implications of being a DREAMer

Things that those in leadership roles can do to help alleviate some of the challenges of employees who are in marginalized demographics

What inclusion looks like in the workplace

Education is the ground-zero for empathy

The trauma of carrying the weight of a marginalized identity

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I am so glad that you’re here joining us today for such a wonderful conversation I had with Isioma Nwabuzor, an attorney in the Milwaukee area. Currently, she works with Robert W. Baird, an employee-owned financial services firm, supporting the firm’s US and UK transactions in its private equity business. Isioma is a DREAMer, and in this episode, she shares some of the unseen and unknown hardships of what it is like to be an immigrant in the US, how companies can do a better job of being inclusive, and she also shares information about her organization, The Dreamer Next Door Incorporated and the work they are doing to lift others as we rise.

Topics in this episode


The DREAM act
Living in a state of limbo as a DREAMer
The implications of being a DREAMer
Things that those in leadership roles can do to help alleviate some of the challenges of employees who are in marginalized demographics
What inclusion looks like in the workplace
Education is the ground-zero for empathy
The trauma of carrying the weight of a marginalized identity

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Instagram

Facebook

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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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