D&I 1-on-1: Facial Differences & Diversity

D&I 1-on-1 is a biweekly webinar series hosted by Jina Etienne. In this episode, she spoke with Adrianna Flax, Founder & Owner of AM Flax Consulting. Adrianna is Jewish, Latina, proudly part of the LGBTQ+ community and has a facial difference. So much of her highly intersectional identity often goes unseen. Her primary difference that is highly visible is her birthmark. Moving through the world with this facial difference, she knows first-hand how this type of diversity that is often overlooked. She joined us to talk about these points of diversity that are unexpected and urged us to acknowledge our biases and assumptions as the first step toward disruption. We talked about the importance of building awareness around our perceptions of difference, acknowledging the difficulty we may have navigating moments where we encounter unexpected differences, and working to disrupt our biases and shift our reactions.