Bethaney Wilkinson > Quotes

“The organization’s priority is to tell and protect its origin story at all costs. When a woman of color joins the organization, she tends to fit in as long as she upholds the story. However, once she begins to voice a counternarrative, or when she leads in ways the organization finds threatening, organizational forces push the woman of color out. She moves on, because she’s fired or because the environment becomes so toxic she has to leave for the sake of her mental and emotional health.”
― Bethaney Wilkinson, The Diversity Gap: Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change

“Internally, while we have people of color, or diversity, in our staff members, they have absolutely no opportunity for growth at all. There are folks who have been in this building for fifteen years and have never gotten a promotion and have never gotten a raise. It’s an overarching challenge.”
― Bethaney Wilkinson, The Diversity Gap: Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change