by Tara Robertson | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog
stars by Darko Pevec, licensed under Creative Commons Today I learned that Glassdoor recently added diversity and inclusion metrics to their company rankings. My first reaction was excitement–this could drive accountability and increase transparency on...
by Tara Robertson | Aug 21, 2020 | Blog
Image from Women of Color in Tech stock images collection After 3 years leading Diversity and Inclusion at Mozilla I’m looking for my next job: Director or Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at a tech company that’s hungry to make systemic change. At...
by Tara Robertson | Dec 13, 2019 | Blog
Recently I read an article on CBC about a project by Nicole Hill from Six Nations of the Grand River to create modern stock photos of Indigenous people because they couldn’t find representations of people like them to promote development projects. There’s...
by Tara Robertson | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog
Jeremy Dutcher’s music is so beautiful and powerful. The way he talks about hearing his ancestors singing and laughing on archival recordings moves me in a deep way that I have a difficult time explaining with words. His Juno acceptance speech for best...
by Tara Robertson | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog
Being asked to keynote code4lib was a literal dream come true for me. I shared some of the diversity and inclusion work we’re doing at Mozilla, called out whiteness and racism in libraries and shared some personal stuff. This wasn’t the first time...
by Tara Robertson | Nov 20, 2018 | Blog
It was such an honour to be invited to speak at National Digital Forum in Wellington. This was the biggest talk I’ve ever done and it’s the first talk I’ve done on the diversity and inclusion. I surprised myself by how emotional I got at the end and...
