Conversations around DEI and allyship have come into focus in many areas of tech/STEM, especially in the past several years. From this heightened level of awareness have sprung common paradigms for thinking about and addressing how one might best show up in support of historically excluded groups, oftentimes focused on prescriptive or performative allyship behaviors.

In this talk, we intend to flip the script. Instead of focusing on the “correct behaviors” and “right responses” when demonstrating allyship, we’ll be taking a look at a human-centered approach on those we are intending to support while asking challenging questions about how we each show up in a given environment or situation.

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