A short conversational video (recorded Aug 1, 2023) in which James Laughlin asks how people with various forms of privilege can create opportunities for others. The respondent recommends first recognizing one’s privileges, then proactively creating access (e.g., offering leadership-development spots, making introductions to networks), placing less-privileged people into those spaces, and accompanying/protecting them while they engage.
For the person out there that's listening, that has a position of privilege, and that might be with their skin color, with their age, their geographical location, all those things. What can they do specifically to actually create space for people who don't have the same privilege as them?
I'm trying to think of kind of tangible help there, but merely recognizing that you have privileges actually quite significant to a lot of people like me. And it's just ensuring if a leadership development opportunity comes up, if introducing, you know, someone who is not as privileged to the right people because that person doesn't have the right network, works, doesn't have access to certain things, just think proactively about putting that person into those spaces and then being alongside them to help protect them.
