In 2020, Serwah Asante, a former employee of the International Rescue Committee, a global refugee resettlement organization, experienced repeated marginalization, intimidation, and bullying by top IRC officials (David Miliband, President and CEO; Ricardo Castro, former General Counsel; Madlin Sadler, Chief Operating Officer; Brian Johnson, Chief Human Resources Officer) during her work to enhance racial equity initiatives in the organization. Asante experienced a range of white supremacist characteristics as a former Grants Manager including power hoarding by white leadership, paternalistic demands by white colleagues, micro and macro aggressions in public meetings, gas lighting, and white defensiveness when BIPOC staff raised concerns about internal policies and practices. After 15 months of ongoing harassment and misconduct,
Why Rescue Earthworms after Rain?
In heavy rain, many earthworms (and fellow invertebrates) migrate to the surface. They do this for one reason: to breathe. Earthworms follow a diurnal…