Meena Harris Quotes

Meena Harris

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : October 20, 1984

Something I've definitely learned from my aunt and my mom is that you've got to keep your eye on the ball. You have to realize that, in some instances, you may need to work twice as hard to get half as much, but you don't stop. You don't stop fighting.

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The idea is, we use our platform, community, brand recognition, and other methods to really raise awareness and inspire ordinary people to own bold, important social messages.

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But when we're helping children understand how people from different walks of life can coexist, prioritizing common ground too often obscures or erases uncommon experiences.

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I wrote 'Kamala and Maya's Big Idea' because I don't want my daughters to think in euphemisms.

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In 2018, according to the Children's Cooperative Book Center at the University of Wisconsin's School of Education, fewer than a third of all children's and young adult books in the United States featured a person of color as a main character.

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We should want children to value difference. Preparing them for a more just world doesn't mean teaching them to aspire to purple. It means helping them learn to celebrate black.

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At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

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When male allies make space for women, they're not diminishing their own power. Rather, they're enhancing everyone's.

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In the work I do through the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, male allyship is a major priority, and we're constantly looking for ways to engage men.

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I know what sexual harassment looks like. I'm also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.

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Preventative measures should be taken to provide the fundamentals of recognizing and addressing sexual harassment. If all community members are required to undergo such training, it will be assumed in any case of sexual harassment that the perpetrator understood the effect of his actions.

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My most casual day at work is a Phenomenal shirt. It's so comfortable and cozy, I have about 20 of them that I can reach for every day.

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Mara Hoffman makes flowy dresses, and a lot of her stuff is geared towards swimwear, like cover ups, but they work well as house dresses, too.

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My power outfit is feeling confident and well styled, thinking that my outfit is awesome.

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I have a whole quarantine-on-camera look and it's my Harwell Godfrey hoops, my Phenomenal shirt, glasses, and my hair tied up into a bun. If I'm on camera, I'll wear some makeup.

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As a consumer, I love nothing more than to find and support women-owned brands - and especially women of color-owned brands.

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It's all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just white women.

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This is the whole point of intersectionality - that it cannot only be a single-issue analysis of race and gender, and instead must consider the cumulative impact of various and simultaneous identities that compound the effects of discrimination.

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