Interesting article with an unsettling truth: "'Ultimately your goal is not to code switch but to know your desired industry's norms and then decide how and whether to engage with those professionalism norms,' said Hanson. To that end, OppNet's coaches work with high school and college students from low-income households to reflect on the ways in which professionalism norms 'are determined by those with historical and structural power,' said Hanson. 'Those norms are unspoken but nonetheless rewarded and your reward depends on your personal proximity to historical and structural power.'" This is why connections are so important, and also (to my mind) why it's so important to diffuse these sources of power.
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