Talk

San Francisco, CA June 4, 2016
Codeswitching: What it is, why it happens, how it affects the workplace

In conversations about diversity and inclusion, we often talk about the individual and communal effects of an exclusive workplace. One of the indicators of this is the number of times employees code switch to fit an environment that does not align with their truer self. Code-switching is an incredibly complex linguistic, cultural and sociological aspect of our everyday life. In this talk, I’ll cover what it is, how it happens and how to design your workplace for inclusion.