New Project: The Automation Resilience Worker Center will train workers whose jobs are susceptible to automation, in the discrete skills they'll need to thrive in the automated versions of their fields.
Learn more1/ We can, and we must, end the influence of a person’s class and race on their ability to launch, sustain, and advance a high-growth career. Part of this means revolutionizing our approach to education and worker training. It must be free or affordable, accessible, relevant to industry, and conducive to high-paying automation-resilient careers.
2/ Companies have a civic responsibility to the cities that host them, and to the people that live there. We have the power to build corporations that are gentrification neutral, by equitably hiring, training, employing, and advancing locals.
3/ Workers and their communities are real stakeholders in the development of their local economies. They need to have more than a voice; they must have agency.
4/ A person’s labor value must be allowed to rise along with their property value.
The Automation Resilience Worker Center will train workers whose jobs are susceptible to automation, in the discrete skills they'll need to thrive in the automated versions of their fields.
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Keynote address delivered at the LibLearnX Conference in Baltimore. Regarding the propensity to honor Dr. King’s legacy in our words, while dismantling it in our actions.
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Part history book, and part manifesto, it’s an urgent call for organizing shared strategies in order to move toward a more economically inclusive and equitable workforce.
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The roles in which Black workers are disproportionately represented in tech, such as DEI, human resources, sales, and IT, are more vulnerable to layoffs than those performed by their White colleagues.
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What would it take, really, to make wealth and race irrelevant to someone’s ability to launch, sustain, and advance a corporate career? The case for a grassroots-up approach, rather than C-Suite down.
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