Pipeline Development & Recruitment Strategy: Avoiding Bias in Hiring
Bias, in particular unconscious bias, is a hot topic these days. However, most conversations about bias tend to center around cultural bias–that is, relying upon …
Pipeline Development and Recruiting Strategy: Who’s in the Pipeline?
Dozens and dozens of brewers I have spoken to over the past couple of years have considered one outcome, above many possible others, as the …
Crafting Statements 101
Since the end of May, countless organizations have made public statements that take a stance against racism specifically and in support of social justice more …
Pipeline Development and Recruiting Strategy
This is a mid-week Bonus post for subscribers at Flagship and above. In the most recent post in the Pipeline Development and Recruiting Strategy series, …
Understanding Networks of Fear: A Compassionate Approach to Social Justice Education
Many of you may be familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Developed in the 1940s, it is a theory of psychology that models human needs …
In Craft Beer, A Commitment to Drive Change
Black Lives Matter. Black lives mattered when millions of cracked and calloused hands laid the foundations of the American economy in the damp furrows of …
Feeling Helpless? 15 Things You Can Do To Fight Racism and Work For Social Justice
I cannot count how many times I have been asked in recent days, “What can I do?” This question often comes from a place of …
I am STILL not the Diversity Police
Some thoughts on the Division of Labor in Activism and Advocacy in Craft Beer There are few things that communicate as much and as ambiguously …
Yes, it’s a lot. I’m asking you to think
Reflections on my first year as the craft beer industry’s first Diversity Ambassador Actually, it’s only been eight months since I was named the Brewers Association’s …
I am not the diversity police
A post factum explanation “I’m not the diversity police. I’m the diversity ambassador.” Though I had said this a number of times since late April, …