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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

9 months

Since y’all are so mad about my article, be even madder about my book 🤷🏽‍♀️

Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace by Janice Gassam Asare: 9781523005550 | PenguinRandomHouse...

Your DEIJ efforts are stagnating because you continue to center whiteness. Creating a truly anti-racist organization requires learning how to identify and rectify the systemic, and often unconsciou...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

I’ve written over 200 articles in the 2.5 years I’ve been a contributing writer for Forbes and few stories have hit me the way DR. @ayshakhoury ‘s story did. She was essentially fired for teaching her med students about racism in healthcare and medicine.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

To heal the racial divide in the U.S., Black descendants of enslaved peoples need their reparations. Read more here:

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

This mindset that “DEI work should take no time” is problematic. When people say “all it takes is those in power being willing to make changes” it simplifies a complex issue.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

Two more days until my first book drops! I’m SO EXCITED! Available on audible as well 🙏🏽❤️ #Juneteenth Pre-order here:

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

If you “don’t see race” how will you spot racism? 🤔

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

When you have worked in an environment that has caused you harm, hearing that leaders have implemented new policies that will benefit you is a good thing, yes. But does that immediately cause you to trust leadership and their intentions? No. Not usually.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

@AlainaMacaulay Any sort of “DEI quick fix” won’t change the culture when the trust has been shattered + employees have experienced harm and trauma over years/decades. Repairing employee trust takes time. And that is a huge part of “DEI work.”

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

Gonna leave this right here 🖤

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

@DrSamR_ @AlainaMacaulay Exactly. In environments where employees have lost trust in their leadership, repairing the harm will require ongoing and long-term efforts. Implementing policies and practices that will lead to change doesn’t shift a culture overnight. I think this is an oversimplification.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

How it started versus how it’s going. The same company that rejected me 2 yrs ago sent me an email today saying I’m the perfect fit for a role at their company. If you need some motivation on your job hunt, here it is. Stay the course, stay consistent and always be your no 1 fan

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

Wow. This is powerful @kevinmichaael

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

The story of Black women are often overlooked, ignored and underreported. Words cannot express how grateful I am to be in a position where I can amplify Black women’s stories ♥️

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

How can you be a better ally to women of color in your workplace? Click below to find out!

How to be better allies to women of color at work - Fast Company

First of all, talk less and listen more.

www.fastcompany.com

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

7 months

My new book is now on display inside the busiest Barnes & Noble in the country. If you’re in NYC or will be within the next 2 weeks, come stop by and grab your copy of Decentering ⚪️ness in the Workplace! 🖤

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

@jaspar I have never heard of this in my life. And I’ve adjuncted for a several institutions in the past. In the tri-state they typically pay in the $3-4K per class range on average. But…Is this what it’s come to? 😳😳

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

6 years

Super excited to now be a @Forbes contributor. Here is my first piece on how to retain diverse talent

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

I’m really bad at Tweeting. In 2010 I was so obsessed with Twitter and found myself spending hours on here. With the advent of Instagram, I migrated there and it and LinkedIn have become my go-tos...but I want to get back into Twitter. I promise myself I will be better!

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

Dr @ayshakhoury was able to provide receipts showing that prior to a class teaching students about systemic racism in medicine / healthcare, she received stellar performance reviews. Then suddenly she is being told that her contract was not being renewed. 🥴

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

Less than two weeks until #DirtyDiversity book drops! The paperback and e-book will drop on June 19th (Juneteenth). Pre-order your ebook today ♥️

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

#RepresentationMatters

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

Those looking to learn more about the experience of Black grad students + Black academics needs to read the #BlackintheIvory tweets. Non-BIPOC will be mindblown 🤯. I have so many stories to contribute...but can’t 🥴

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

#misogynoir in the workplace

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

In the midst of everything going on, I wanted to share a small moment that brought me joy. My new book Dirty Diversity is #1 in new releases and #3 in bestsellers on Amazon 🥰 Anyone trying to create more inclusive workplaces needs this. Pre-order today:

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

1 year

I’m gonna just leave this right here:

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

Saddened, angry and heartbroken over the state of our country but wanted to share this moment of joy. Pre-order your copy today:

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

This is how academia treats Black professors 😒 this is an email that was received by my friend through her university email. When she asked the tech dept. to help her track down the culprit, they basically told her there was nothing that could be done. Thread 1.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

Anyway, that teller was 100% wrong but nearly every person I remember working with in the bank thinks like that too.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

So y’all. I clicked on the #UberEATS app so I could get dinner. Clicked the Black-owned section. Called a few to make sure they are actually Black-owned and just found out some aren’t 👀 apparently biz are misusing the Black-owned section on the app to seemingly gain more biz 🙄

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

6 years

Rejection is protection. Remember that.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

Twitter is one thing I wish I was really good at. I’m too verbose and could never fit all my thoughts into 140 characters. I’ve always admired those who are quick and witty and are able to condense their thoughts into digestible pieces for the Twitter-verse. That was never me 🥲

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

Within banks, they encourage the targeting of Black folks. I will never forget when I was working at a small bank in Louisiana and my coworker said she thought this Black customer sold drugs bc he came in with wads of cash 🤔

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

I don’t know what she can do. She needs her job but out of fear of retaliation, she cannot out her university. Anti-Blackness is so pervasive in academia and PWIs have no incentive to change their oppressive systems. I am horrified that she has to experience this. Thread 5.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

Tonight I will be having a candid conversation on @joinClubhouse about what it means to normalize Blackness in the workplace. Join us at 6pm EST/3pm PST.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

The person who doxed her was a former student of hers (who at the time was a current student). The university had evidence of a professor getting doxed by a student and DID NOTHING TO THE STUDENT. They know exactly who the student is and basically did nothing. Thread 4.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

What does harm-reduction look like in the workplace? I had a chance to share some thoughts for a recent article I wrote. Happy Reading 📖

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

When you’ve caused people harm, you cannot snap your fingers and repair that harm immediately. Yes. You can take actions to repair the harm. But you can’t expect forgiveness and trust to immediately happen overnight.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

Black people are often the ones encouraged to engage in anti-black behaviors in the bank. Based on ppls logic, it can be anti-black if it’s being done by one of us.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

@corprteUnicorn The irony is that person has “open to work” on their profile 😂comments like that aren’t helping your chances….

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

“Any fool can learn from experience; the trick is learning from OTHER PEOPLE’S experiences.” 💯

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

6 years

Always smile. Even through the pain. And the darkness. Smiling boosts your mood and can help to lift your spirits 😀

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

People just say stuff to go viral without thinking about the gravity of their words and how it feeds into false and problematic ideologies.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

She works at a PWI in NYC with 100 students in one course and 150 in another. It could have been any of those students that sent her that email. Imagine the feeling of walking into class every week, knowing that you have to teach the person that email that to you. Thread 2.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

New research from @Deloitte reveals that employees experience covert and less blatant forms of bias versus more explicit and blatant bias in the workplace. To read more about the findings, check out my latest @Forbes piece

Deloitte's New Survey Reveals That Microaggressions Are More Common Than You Think

This article highlights the results of Deloitte's 2019 State of Inclusion Survey.

www.forbes.com

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

If you’ve caused harm & apologize + (over time) put forth efforts that show you’ve evolved, then you’re able to regain the trust that was lost. Any1 who has put their trust into a person or company should know when that trust has been shattered it takes a while to regain again.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

6 years

I can’t tell you how many rejection letters, emails, and NOs I’ve received. But once I got that one “yes”, that’s all I needed!

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

A change in your actions will not automatically and quickly repair the harm you’ve caused. The damage is done and you cannot put a broken glass back together.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

This Ryan Coogler story is wild. I worked as a teller for 5 years at 3 different banks. Two months before I resigned, I was robbed at gunpoint inside the bank.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

When I was robbed it was 2010. Over a decade before the pandemic. There is a specific protocol that bank tellers are trained on and that training considered so many scenarios and what to do if you think you’re being robbed.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

This is the SAME institution where she was DOXED by a student last semester. All her personal info was dropped in a WhatsApp group chat for students to see. She told the university how she felt unsafe and they basically did nothing to resolve the issue 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

6 years

Never ever ever burn bridges. Life has an uncanny way of bringing back into our lives people that we thought we’d never see again

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

It’s wild that that bank teller didn’t even read the note (based on what she told the 911 dispatcher) but assumed a Black man who passed her a note was trying to rob her. As someone who has been robbed at gunpoint inside a bank before, she was wrong for that.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

9 months

@JDVance1 If you think the article is bad, wait til you read my whole book Decentering ⚪️ness in the Workplace 😂😂😂

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

For any transaction over 10K we’re supposed to fill out a CTR which goes to the govt. if she suspected Coogler was robbing her, when filling out the CTR she would have gotten more info and the bank/govt would have caught on.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

@balbinaknight I feel attacked 😂😂

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

“Will we invest time if a result is not guaranteed? With ego, we will not. Ego is the enemy. The less we are attached to outcomes, the better.”

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

7 years

Very interesting talk by @jasonjjay on sustainable energy !

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

@corprteUnicorn

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

I froze and totally forgot to give the dye pack. I pressed the panic button though and then gave him every dollar in my cash drawer. In that situation, I read the note, saw I was being robbed and followed protocol.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

8 months

@philmandelbaum @SheryllCashin @BeaconPressBks @IMIXWHATILIKE @BlackPowerMedi1 @Palgrave @_imnotyelling_ @MangoPublishing @NettaJenkins @WileyGlobal @BKpub Thank you so much for including me in this list among so many other 🔥 authors ❤️

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

9 months

@milroeszn 😂🤣🫶🏽

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

A man walked up to me, out of allll the other tellers that were available and he passed me a note that said “give me all your money or I will shoot you.” In this situation we are trained to press the “panic” button and give a robber our dye pack.

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

The bigger the ego, the harder the fall!

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

@YorleneGoff Thank you so much!!!

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

3 years

@corprteUnicorn Girl I didn’t have the energy, but I really wanted to comment that many of the leaders I work with have that same microwave mindset where they think they can make mistakes /apologize and all should be forgiven. Rebuilding trust takes time and that’s a large part of DEI work

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

9 months

@RahkimSabree Chileeeeee…..

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

2 years

@corprteUnicorn Wtf….

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

6 years

If Michael Jordan allowed his previous rejections to prevent him from continuing to try, he wouldn’t be the GREATEST basketball player this world has ever seen. Don’t let the rejections get you down!

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

“We cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations.”

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

@LeitnerJim Thank you for tweeting Jim !

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

4 years

@Jess_Herman Hi Jessica! LinkedIn !! Janice Gassam 😃

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

1 year

@DeniseReeseVO Wow! I think you made the right decision sis 👏🏽 👏🏽

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Janice Gassam Asare, PhD

@DrJaniceGassam

5 years

@jenniferbrown Thank you for reposting this Jennifer! ❤️🙏🏽

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