Google’s Sydney Coleman: “Why we need a movement for racial equity across every sphere of life — housing, healthcare, wealth distribution, education, and opportunity”

[We need a movement for] racial equity across every sphere of life — housing, healthcare, wealth distribution, education, opportunity. Our country and world has wounds and historical, intergenerational trauma that needs to heal for people to be truly free.

As a part of our series about people making an important social impact, I had the pleasure to interview Sydney Coleman. Sydney leads Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs at Google. She began her diversity, equity, and inclusion advocacy when she studied social identity, inequality, and intergroup relations. She designed and conducted research on the relationship between internalized racism and colorism with undergraduate Women of Color. Sydney’s passion for social justice activism led to creating and driving more diverse and inclusive programming and policies in tech startups. She took on leadership roles in both corporate Employee Resource Groups and Diversity Steering Committees. Sydney also designed employee inclusion surveys and held…