Job Search Considerations for POC Who Are Recovering From Workplace Racism

UPDATE: Yejin will be providing ASL interpreter for this event!

DISCLAIMER: While anyone can register for this free event, this is intended to be a space for people of color. White people who claim to be allies who register for this free event will be telling on themselves.

Equity & Justice Practitioner Yejin Lee has spent most of her time in 2020 and 2021 doing protective, defensive, and supportive work for people of color who were continuously experience racial harm in their places of work. Racially minoritized people have been reaching out looking for guidance and support on how to minimize exposure to racial harm while also advocating for organizational accountability and transformation. They have been seeking support on how to emotionally divest from work in order to center healing while also preemptively protecting themselves from the experiencing racialized consequences of their divestment. In the last two years, Yejin worked with 34 coaching clients of color, facilitated dozens of workshops to center the protection of people of color, and made space for twenty-five 3-hour emergency coaching sessions with her melanated sibs.

In order to optimize the ways she can support her beloved communities, Yejin has created a free 3-hour workshop for folks of color who are considering or are in the midst of a job search. Radical self-centering is especially important for racially minoritized people who are experiencing or have experienced racial harm at work. When folks haven’t had the opportunity, time, or space to heal from their experiences, diving into a job searching process can be particularly (and sometimes surprisingly) triggering, painful, and emotionally draining.

During this 3-hour workshop, Yejin will:

• Make space for participants to name the ways in which they've experienced racial harm in the workplace;
• Share the ways in which these experiences can and do impact the job searching process;
• Support folks in identifying how to anticipate what might get triggered during a job search process, and make plans to balance their care with their need for a new job;
• Offer a framework to help participants create self-centering strategies to move them through these processes with as much agency & autonomy as possible.

This free event is made possible by ticketed events in 2021.

Full Series

This event is a part of a series called Equity-Informed Job Searching with Yejin. The full list of events is as follows:

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? Strategic Considerations Before Quitting A Job | Sunday, February 20th from 2-4pm EST
• Crafting the Shape of Our Stories: Self-Centering Job Search Preparation | Sunday, March 6th from 2-4pm EST
• Let’s Be Real: A Practicum on Interview Prep that Isn’t About Faking It | Sunday, March 20th from 2-4pm EST
• Job Search Considerations for People of Color Who Are Recovering From Workplace Racism | Sunday, April 3rd from 2-4pm EST

People who are attending more than one event may access a 25% discount. The promo code for this discount is PACKAGE2022. I am trusting people to be honest about usage of this promo code and will be very disappointed in folks who misuse it.

Yejin Lee (she/her) is a New York-based Korean-American equity & justice coach and consultant with over 12 years of experience in the NYC nonprofit sector as an organizer, fundraiser, staff advocate, and organizational design aficionado. Her primary mission as a coach is to support the liberation of people of color by guiding them in finding values-driven pathways for their careers and lives, and by building their capacity to strategize around and survive inequitable experiences within institutions. Her secondary mission is to reduce the harm experienced by people of color within institutions, and she does this through her leadership coaching services & organizational consulting practice.

Yejin received her BA from Boston College in History, American Studies, and African Diaspora Studies, has been trained by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond in Undoing Racism, and has completed an equity-informed mediation basics training from Resolutions Northwest.