Elevating the voices of women of color in the workplace is crucial for fostering a diverse and inclusive organizational culture. These women often face unique challenges and systemic barriers, and amplifying their perspectives encourages dialogue in companies while leading to equitable decision-making and leadership practices. By prioritizing the contributions and experiences of women of color, organizations can explore insights that challenge conventional thinking and promote an interdisciplinary workplace. Examining the narratives of women of color in business, may help create an environment where diverse voices are heard, valued, and empowered, creating a strong workforce prepared to navigate complex business challenges.

Elevating the Voices of Women of Color in the Workplace explores the intersectional experiences of minoritized women of color in the workplace. This book encompasses personal narratives, rigorous research, and insights into topics such as leadership, mindfulness, and inclusive workplace practices, emphasizing the resilience and unique contributions of women. This book covers topics such as diversity and equity, work-life balance, and sociology, and is a useful resource for educators, business owners, administrators, policymakers, academicians, and researchers.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Administration and Leadership
Culture and Population
Diversity and Equity
Feminism
Intersectionality
Psychology and Human Behavior
Sociology
Women’s Studies
Work-Life Balance
Workplace Culture

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Myia S Williams , Ph.D., is a Research Industrial/Organizational Psychologist for designing innovative Employee Experience (EE) programs and initiatives to align with and advance EE goals. More specifically, as a survey design expert she brings to life data by capturing the moments that matter through employee life cycle surveys and transforming insights into actional strategies that create a positive employee experience for 85,000+ employees. As a distinguished science practitioner, specializes in occupational health psychology, delving into the intricate world of employee experiences related to stress, burnout, workplace ostracism, and DEIA (microaggressions, intersectionality, racism and discrimination). In addition to her work in employee experience/listening, Dr Williams is actively involved in research around support systems and challenges that impacted healthcare professionals during COVID-19 and developing interventions (e.g. mindfulness based stress reduction interventions) that could help reduce stressors, and burnout in healthcare professionals. She also provides evidence-based solutions based on her research on organizational and interpersonal factors, such as workplace policies/culture, workplace ostracism and discrimination, that impact the diversification of the physician workforce (primarily women, and racial/ethnic minorities, including immigrants) and affect patient safety. Dr Williams collaborates with a group of scientists, physicians, psychologists, health economists and others to analyze large data sets and use findings to develop and evaluate new health care technologies and behavioral interventions for improving community health and reducing the prevalence of chronic illness often from the vantage point of racial/ethnic minority and immigrant patient populations or communities. In addition, she provides internal scientific consultation in research design, qualitative and quantitative analysis, needs assessment, survey development, psychometrics, data safety and monitoring, manuscript development, and grant proposal writing. From 2023 – 2019, Dr Williams has received a number of awards including Researcher-In Training Award and Educational Advancement Award and most recently the Career Advancement Award from AWSM (pronounced awesome) (Advancing Women in Science and Medicine) for her work on immigrant populations, employee experience and DEIA. She was a member of Department of Medicine Racial Equity Task force and founder/co-moderator of COVID-19 Conversations a bi-weekly themed webinar that discussed the impact of COVID-19 on underserved racial/ethnic minority and immigrant populations. She is the author of over 35+ peer-reviewed articles including those under review, in both clinical and organizational research, a co-investigator on two federally funded million dollar grants to develop culturally tailored interventions for racial/ethnic minority populations and a co-principal investigator on an organizational funded grant to reduce stress on ethnic and immigrant women caregivers for end of life patients. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University, Research Instructor at the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research, and Adjunct professor at Brooklyn College She is an active member of Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Metropolitan New York Association of Applied Psychology (METRO). She holds a PhD in Applied Organizational Psychology from Hofstra University and is originally from the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Lucia.

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