EQUITY STATEMENT

As a career coach, I support people in the trajectory of their careers to navigate through the workplace that is has white supremacist, patriarchal, and colonial foundations. These systems have created racist and discriminatory workplaces and hiring practices that are unequal and unethical. My goal is to support people to successfully navigate through and dismantle these systems of oppression during their careers by creating a career path that helps them reimagine the workplace that provides true equity.

I acknowledge that I benefit from a white supremacist system that created harm, violence and discrimination in the workplace. I am committed to actively unlearning this through continued education and activism that supports BIPOC people including those who are immigrants, LGBTQIA+, non-binary, neurodivergent, and people with disabilities. I am continuing to learn every day and acknowledging my mistakes along the way.

Here are some ways that I'm taking action in 2023:

• Providing a 10% discount for BIPOC for 1:1 career coaching clients. Email me at hello@maryblalock.com to set this up.

• Donate 10% from all classes to Black Women and Femme-led organizations that are committed to racial systemic change and providing more employment opportunities and advancement to BIPOC folks in the workplace including Equitable Giving Circle and Black Girls Code.

• Partnering with majority BIPOC partners and speakers for podcast & events through my company.

Land Acknowledgement
My business resides on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River in what is now called Portland, Oregon. As a settler of this land, I respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous community past, present, and future and acknowledge the systemic policies of genocide, relocation, and assimilation that still impact many Indigenous families today.