Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change

In this episode of Everyday Equity, Pooja Kothari speaks with Elaine Lin Herring, author of Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent and Live More Fully. Elaine shares how learned silence especially for immigrants and marginalized professionals, shapes how we show up at work and in life. Together, they explore why speaking up isn’t just an individual responsibility, but also a le...

In this episode of Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change, Pooja Kothari sits down with Jennifer Witter, CEO and founder of The Boreland Group, a public relations agency with more than two decades of experience helping organizations gain visibility and influence. Jennifer shares how she built her company, why she now focuses on supporting women-led and “new majority” businesses, and how p...

This Episode talks about Anti-Oppression as a Daily Practice with Leah Weinberg What does it mean to build anti-oppression into your business from the very beginning? In this episode, Pooja Kothari talks with attorney, former wedding planner, and Oberg Law founder Leah Weinberg about making equity a daily practice  not a marketing strategy. They explore defensiveness and privilege, intent vs. impa...

This Episode talks about Neurodiversity, Gender Expansiveness & Rethinking DEI with Chris Hooten What does real belonging at work actually look like? In this episode of Everyday Equity, Pooja Kothari speaks with Chris Hooten, speaker and consultant focused on intersectional neurodiversity and gender equity. They explore what it means to create neurodivergent and gender-expansive affirming work...

What does equity-centered data really mean? In this episode of Everyday Equity, Pooja Kothari sits down with Allison Shurilla, founder of AS Community Consulting, to demystify evaluation and data strategy. Allison explains how research doesn’t have to be cold or math-heavy — at its best, it’s about listening to communities, gathering meaningful information, and using it to make better decisions. T...

What happens when you grow up between cultures and rarely see yourself reflected accurately in media or leadership? In this episode, Pooja Kothari talks with Sandhya Jain Patel, DEI and multicultural strategy advisor and host of The Culture Prism, about third culture identity, authentic storytelling, and why representation still matters. They explore stereotypes in media, internal community bias l...

In this episode of Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change, Pooja Kothari sits down with Jessica Bantom Global Leader for Equity, Diversity and Belonging at DLR Group and author of Design for Identity. They explore the intersection of design and equity, unpacking the difference between diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity and why equity is the outcome we’re striving for. Jessica sha...

In this episode of Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change, Pooja Kothari sits down with Dr. Jenn Wells organizational change leader, DEI strategist, and Director of Equity & Inclusion to unpack what it really takes to move DEI from statements and trainings into day-to-day systems. They talk about why Chief Diversity Officer roles face resistance, the difference between programming vs....

In this episode of Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change, Pooja Kothari talks with Lynne Marie Rosenberg, creator and host of Famous Cast Words (All Arts/PBS), educator and Boundless Awareness co-facilitator. They unpack what anti-oppression and allyship look like in practice, using Lynne’s work exposing harmful casting language as a case study in building platforms and ladders for other...

In this episode of Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make Change, Pooja Kothari sits down with Ariana De La Rosa, A holistic career and empowerment coach for first-generation and BIPOC professionals. Ariana shares why career growth must center identity, intersectionality and lived experience not separate from them. They discuss showing up authentically at work, navigating bias with humility, commu...

In this episode of Everyday Equity, Pooja Kothari sits down with Dr. Tana M. Session HR consultant, DEIB thought leader, author and LinkedIn Learning instructor to discuss the evolution of anti-oppression work in corporate America. They explore how diversity efforts shifted from women-in-leadership pipelines to more direct conversations about race, power and systemic inequity  and why accountabili...

What does anti-oppression look like in everyday life, not just in a training module? In this episode, Pooja Kothari speaks with Dr Yvette Martinez Vu, first-gen Chicana grad school and productivity coach about sustainable productivity, the hidden curriculum of higher education and supporting first-gen BIPOC students in navigating grad school. They discuss: Why productivity must align with well-bei...