After leaving DEI work amid a mass exodus of Black women from the field, the speaker landed a role at MRM Education where she could openly disclose being autistic and ADHD. Founder Matt McGee designed the position around her neurodivergent strengths in content creation, something she says rarely happens.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Primarily it's because of, I think since the last time we worked, we chatted together, some, you know, stuff have happened in my career. I was in like the DEI and HR space and then like the 300,000+ Black women who no longer working in that space this year. I too was a part of that, but was lucky enough to find MRM Education where I was able to come on board and literally like through the interview process, Bring my neurodivergent self. It was one of the first things I talked about, like, hey, I'm autistic, I have ADHD. Those party tricks like to go together. Fun, fun, fun. Copy paste. Son is autistic, right? And my— the founder, Matt McGee, is all about it and really essentially designed the role to make sure that that is the scope of the work I'm doing. If I'm not out here creating content or sharing more about