Bringing the Fight Home: How to Create a Just and Equitable Workplace

In every professional role I’ve had, at least 33% of my energy has gone to internal equity efforts. That’s meant having hard conversations about how isms and inequities show up in internal policies and practices, working to create equitable policies through a union contract, and creating supportive spaces for traditionally underrepresented folks, to name a few. Let’s talk about how inequities show up in public interest spaces and what we can do to create just workplaces.

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Dorianne Mason has worked for over a decade on issues related to women’s health across the lifespan, and currently leads the National Women’s Law Center legal, research, policy, and public education efforts on health equity. Throughout her career, she’s partnered with state and federal lawmakers, regulators, and officials; community members; health care providers; consumer advocates; researchers; and other health experts to effect change. Dorianne is an expert in coverage and access to health care, having worked in depth on implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in New Mexico, and issues related to culturally responsive outreach and care for Black, Latinx, Indigenous and Asian-American communities across the country. Dorianne has experience examining and evaluating services important to women with multiple marginalized identities and identifying violations of law and other barriers to coverage. She has worked with state and federal advocates and regulators and provided direct representation to address systemic barriers to equitable care. As part of her work at the National Women’s Law Center, Dorianne identifies and prioritizes the needs and voices of underserved populations, in particular women who are low-income, women of color, and those facing multiple, intersecting forms of discrimination.

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