QUALIFIED

On a recent Season 10 taping of the Whitney Reynolds Show, we had the privilege of sitting down with Shari Dunn—an award-winning journalist, CEO, attorney, author, and professor. With an impressive career marked by groundbreaking achievements, Dunn is no stranger to the weight of expectations placed on Black professionals and other people of color.

Her work sheds light on an insidious workplace practice known as “competency checking”—a repeated and unjust scrutiny that forces individuals to constantly prove their intelligence, skills, and even their right to exist in certain spaces.

FIND HER BOOK HERE