ARCC Blog

It feels like a cyclical, painful story we are living through: when will we be removed from this cycle of violence? When will it end? When will we have to stop hearing reports about murders? When will innocent lives be free from subjugation to the random biased will of a police officer?

Over the past week, I have completed the onboarding process for my internship at ARCC. There were a couple of things that stuck out to me. Specifically, I enjoyed listening to “The ARCC of Change” podcast.

I’m proud to be involved with the ARCC, especially after the first week on the job was up. I started this summer with a talk with Donzel Leggett, and I immediately felt a respect for the man and his drive for the values of the ARCC.

This week, after exploring the ARCC’s website and content I learned how prevalent ethnicity bias is in organizations. One way we may see this is with organized sports.

In my exploration of the ARCC's content for my onboarding for my Summer Internship position at the ARCC one episode of the ARCC's podcast, "The ARCC of Change” resonated with me.

My grandfather always said, “they can take everything, but they can’t take your education.” As a Palestinian, holding onto as much knowledge as possible was instilled in me as essential to survival.

It is vitally important for us, as a society, to encourage Black people, and more specifically Black women, to pursue careers in healthcare. Dr. Tamika Lasege discusses her experiences as a Black female doctor and how Black people are treated in healthcare during the podcast episode.

As a teenager in 1960s Hollister, CA with colloquial Spanish as her only language, my grandma was abruptly thrown into an English-only secondary school. It was there she learned to tamp down her first language, and smooth it over like it never existed.

“According to the Black and Missing Foundation, 9 out of ten children of color are reported as runaways, that means only one out of all 10 are reported and people are alerted about.”

While significant progress has been made, many hurdles clearly remain to be overcome. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S., yet their political representation does not reflect this growth.