Sandra

“As communicators, we are complicit in the harm caused by performative communications, microaggressions, reinforcing stereotypes in our content, and contributing to damaging our brand’s reputation…. As conscious communicators, with an awareness of others’ experiences and a commitment to centering them, we are uniquely positioned to help build a truly people-centered workplace.”
― Kim Clark, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“Despite the promise of linguistic diversity, NPR’s architects chose as its standard a way of speaking that is not overtly associated with any particular social group, but more broadly with the leveled dialects of the Northern Midwest… this notion of a relatively universal and socially unmarked standard makes privileged ways of speaking seem mainstream while marginalizing nonstandard dialects and speakers…”
― Christopher Chávez, The Sound of Exclusion: NPR and the Latinx Public

“If we are not intentionally conscious in our communications, we are likely to cause unintentional harm.”
― Kim Clark, The Conscious Communicator: The Fine Art of Not Saying Stupid Sh*t