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How to Move Workplace Diversity and Inclusion From Awareness to Action

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As a white, Jewish woman from South Africa, Natalie Lichtigfeld has been exposed to different cultures, people and religions all her life.

But attending a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) in the Workplace program at the University of South Florida was different.

One of the panelists, Valerie Alexander, said people need to remove the phrase “I don’t see color” from their vocabulary.

“Because with that you deny the lived experience of every person,” said Lichtigfeld, a work management specialist in the invoicing department at Duke Energy Florida.

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