Episode Notes

Zach sits down with Dr. Tammy Hodo to take a deep dive into critical race theory. Dr. Hodo also talks a bit about All Things Diverse LLC, her educational consulting company that works with organizations to optimize employee productivity through recognizing the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Click the links below to check out her website and more!

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EXCERPT
Zach: What’s up, y’all? It’s Zach with Living Corporate. Now, look, what are we doing? What are we doing here? If you’re with somebody who hasn’t listened to the podcast before, you go ahead and lean over and tell ’em. If you’re by yourself, in your car, at a bus stop, on a train, on a plane, whatever, I can tell you myself – Living Corporate seeks to amplify and center underrepresented marginalized, underappreciated, underestimated voices in the workplace. We do that through having authentic, available, and candid conversations with black and brown thought leaders of all types of varieties on this platform, right? I talked to y’all about this before. I came up, and I didn’t have a lot of family members who could teach me the game and teach me how to navigate thesee spaces, and so as I kind of put myself out there and would get dismissed or dissed or ignored by people that looked like me and people who didn’t look like me, every now and then there’d be somebody who would kind of whisper some real talk to me. The goal of this platform is to democratize wisdom and to democratize information and insights that we don’t often have out loud. We’re trying to have all of that information available and present here, so that’s what we’re doing. We’re having real talk in a corporate world, and that real talk continues today with our guest Dr. Tammy L. Hodo. Dr. Tammy Hodo is the president of All Things Diverse, and it’s an educational consulting company working with organizations to optimize employee productivity through recognizing the value of diversity, equity and inclusion. Dr. Hodo earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in urban studies, with a minor in sociology and specializations in race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Dr. Hodo has provided training to local and national organizations all under the umbrella of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has written course content on implicit biases and micro aggressions for a national educational vendor that is being used at hundreds of colleges and universities. So she’s certified. Some of y’all, you know, quietly will kind of question our space and, you know, the authenticity of our space because we don’t have these Eurocentric, Westernized academic accreditations, so don’t hate on us, okay? You know what I’m saying? We out here, you know? She has worked in academia for over 10 years in a variety of positions, including faculty and university administrator roles. Her most recent administrative role was the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for a law school where she was responsible for policy development and overall institutional compliance for students, faculty, and staff related to discrimination and harassment. Dr. Hodo recently completed a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology position at the University of North Florida. Now, look, y’all gonna ask me again, why did I take that whole time to read this incredible bio? First of all because it’s fire, [and] two because she deserves it, okay? So with that being said, Dr. Hodo, welcome to the podcast. [air horns SFX]
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Dr. Hodo: So I’m originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I’m the product of an interracial marriage. So I am biracial, and my parents married in ’62. I’m not that old. [laughs] But anyway, so we grew up realizing, you know, that race was an issue, but we grew up very much cloaked in my mother’s white privilege. So I went into the military, which is where I had my first real experience with institutional as well as interpersonal racism, which drew me to attend an HBCU, which for those who don’t know [is a] Historically Black College University, for undergrad, because I needed to surround myself with people who looked like me in a positive space after what I had just experienced in our U.S. military, and I just continued on my academic journey after that, but I realized quickly as I got my master’s at a predominantly white institute as well as my PhD that there were not a lot of people who looked like me in positions of power, let alone teaching me.

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