Editor’s note: “My Story” is where business executives share their personal and professional backgrounds and journeys that have made them who they are, in their own candid words, from the challenges of confronting stereotypes to the glory in overcoming them. Amid calls for racial justice, we can only make real change with greater awareness and understanding — and the ability to learn from each other’s experiences.
When you are as lucky to work in a place that fundamentally cannot succeed without making space for conversations about identity like I do, you get the opportunity to think about your own identities a lot. At Whitman-Walker, “We See You,” helps us show the patients we serve and the communities we represent that we want their whole person to be in an exam room or a consult room.
This is true for our team members too, but being your whole person at work can mean so many things. In both cases, we have more work to do and are listening and learning. I start here…
Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.
