Claudine Gay didn’t leave on her own terms.

Leaders - the Black women and other employees of Color in your organizations are holding the implications of this very public and high-profile example of racialized exclusion and backlash today and every day. Thank you, Caroline Wanga, for putting words to this (posted below).

Claudine Gay did not leave "on her own terms," as I've seen written in a number of places. She had to make the tough choice to leave a position with no promise of institutional support or protection, an openly articulated lack of trust in her abilities (which have been thoroughly vetted numerous times throughout her career), and violent threats against her well-being. How could she even consider staying under these circumstances?

We simply have to be SO MUCH better at affirming the presence and talents of Black women, and actively supporting all of our employees to thrive in our workplaces.

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Caroline Wanga’s post -

“A world of worries in a world not worried about the worried, therefore the worried become the warriors whose weary worry warrants their warfare.” - Every Black Person … who enters new spaces and suffers the covert ricochet of retaliation by the establishment that cannot bare the loss of the privilege they have over-allocated to thier own existence, because it lubricates the systems of power that equity threatens.