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Caroline Karanja

Caroline Karanja

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Caroline Karanja is a designer, developer, and cultural architect. She is the founder of 26 Letters, a saas e-learning solution for diversity and inclusion. Her deep experience working in the technology space with engineers and building products has given her industry-specific knowledge found in the 26 Letters approach. Caroline has guided culture and inclusion initiative at fastest growing startups with a focus on virtual companies. Her academic background is rooted in cultural and social studies and its application in the private sector.
San Francisco, CA June 4, 2016
Codeswitching: What it is, why it happens, how it affects the workplace
Stories around bias in the workplace

In conversations about diversity and inclusion, we often talk about the individual and communal effects of an exclusive workplace. One of the indicators of this is the number of times employees code switch to fit an environment that does not align with their truer self. Code-switching is an incredibly complex linguistic, cultural and sociological aspect of our everyday life. In this talk, I’ll cover what it is, how it happens and how to design your workplace for inclusion.