u/Ladychewski

Hello! I work with leadership at a large organization in the Midwest (I’ve been with the org for a little over a year). It’s a predominantly white area and fairly conservative, but there’s diversity within the organization (just not really at executive leadership level unfortunately). They have booths for events, holidays, mental health awareness, etc. But they’ve never done more than put basically a footnote in a newsletter for black history month and never anything for Juneteenth. I missed my window for February, but with Juneteenth coming up, I would like to bring this up to our executive team. I’m white though, so I don’t know that I should be heading this up, and even if I did, I want to make sure it’s respectful, appropriate, and catered to the black people at the company… I want to help carve out more space for them because I have the ear of leadership here and feel like it’s a glaringly obvious need?? I guess I’m just hoping for some advice. I don’t know if it’s my place to be doing any of this to begin with. I don’t know if people care? Should I just mind my business? Do people just want to be left alone at work? Any input or advice is greatly appreciated :)