eah, so I can give you many but I'll start here, so here's a simple one and then I'll build on this. We had a Native American woman join our foundation and she was a beautiful, beautiful woman and she would always wear these very long dangling earrings, there are colorful feathers, beautiful, and one person in our organization walked up to her one day and said, "We don't wear those kind of earrings here at the foundation," and so, of course, that was addressed and of course, you can wear those kinds of earrings, but there was a culture there that needed to shift about what was protocol and that was just a fluid space where anyone could feel welcome, but that allowed us to go and look at all of our practices, so we looked inward and we looked at our practices, we looked at any small things, like who was able to have certain equipment, for example, who got a cell phone and who didn't? Who received certain liberties? And what we decided is it has to be very much open to everyone based on their needs and aspirations, and we weren't going to have rules that were based on anything other than the work itself and what people needed to be supported. We also changed, for example, the ways that we celebrate our different ethnicities. We used to have affinity groups and we would have Black history month and everyone would celebrate Black history month, but it was perfunctory and it didn't really inspire people. Those groups were all renamed by staff, their mission, the mandates redefine, they also connected across the groups, they've created this rich fabric of activities that are flowing throughout the entire year, we've changed our entire food service to reflect food and the ethnicity in our food of everyone in the organization. I mean, we've just done everything we can by listening to people we hired to help rebuild the culture where they can feel like they are seen and heard in the culture.
