"
Presents are gifts that are generously given, shared, and exchanged. Education, empathy, compassionate communication and action are center stage as the generously shared, purpose-driven presents driving the unstoppable, social and structural justice change happening in America today. In PRESENTS: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Other Gifts readers will observe diversity as this nation’s strength, and equity and inclusion as unrealized sources of talent that once equally tapped will ultimately contribute to extraordinary, U.S. global power. This book demystifies, clarifies and explains ‘hot button’ terminology. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (D.E.& I.), Critical Race Theory (CRT), allyship, microaggressions, and change-agency are top-of-mind in a long overdue, public conversation regarding systemic social and structural change.The most significant gifts, the presents that are at our disposal with the greatest power to advance inclusive system and structural change today, are this nation’s people. Momentum is growing across the country in the cumulative number of change-agent heroes, the multicultural, multigenerational, multifaceted allies, willing and wanting to act today. Readers will come away with a clearer understanding that the present, today, is the time to learn about and acknowledge the facets of America’s past that are untenable, as we move forward vowing never to repeat them."