Shield and Amplify How to Use Your Privilege to Support Authenticity and Safety for Others
Video Description
Speaker: Britany Acre
Authenticity is powerful—but it’s not equally accessible to everyone. In many professional spaces, especially in government and civic tech, showing up “as yourself” carries real risk for people who are marginalized by race, gender, disability, class, or other lived identities.
This talk invites attendees to rethink what it means to “bring your whole self to work”—and to ask who actually gets to do that safely. We’ll explore how those with positional or cultural privilege can act as shields and amplifiers: creating space, redistributing emotional labor, interrupting harm, and using their influence to make authenticity safer for others.
Grounded in stories, emotional intelligence, and real-world team dynamics, this session offers a framework for relational allyship—how to not just speak up, but stand with. You’ll leave with practical strategies to challenge norms, model vulnerability, and contribute to cultures of psychological safety and belonging in government-facing work.
Authenticity is powerful—but it’s not equally accessible to everyone. In many professional spaces, especially in government and civic tech, showing up “as yourself” carries real risk for people who are marginalized by race, gender, disability, class, or other lived identities.
This talk invites attendees to rethink what it means to “bring your whole self to work”—and to ask who actually gets to do that safely. We’ll explore how those with positional or cultural privilege can act as shields and amplifiers: creating space, redistributing emotional labor, interrupting harm, and using their influence to make authenticity safer for others.
Grounded in stories, emotional intelligence, and real-world team dynamics, this session offers a framework for relational allyship—how to not just speak up, but stand with. You’ll leave with practical strategies to challenge norms, model vulnerability, and contribute to cultures of psychological safety and belonging in government-facing work.