The Diversity Project launches its 'A fish out of water' campaign

Aims to ensure open dialogue

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Recent months have shed immense light on the challenges that people of colour and those of different races and ethnicities experience in their daily lives. To many, it is a watershed moment, write Monica Gogna and Kelly Tran

Recent months have shed immense light on the challenges that people of colour and those of different races and ethnicities experience in their daily lives. To many, it is a watershed moment. However, as we, at The Diversity Project's race and ethnicity group, sat down to discuss whether we are moving in the right direction and what is next, we realised fairly quickly that some of the discussion emanating from the corporate world seemed very distant from our lived experiences. Somehow people's daily experiences were being meshed into ‘corporate speak' and were either not heard or lost in ...

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