DEI has trended as much as it's underdelivered. It's hard to have true impact when you're trying to placate more than change. DEI is co-opted left and right to look seasonally good when it's politically convenient to appear more open than we are, but then in the off-season when Black History Month has reached its convenient expiry date, commitment dies when visibility flatlines. But see, for us at Chesline Inc. it's simple: doing what's convenient rarely changes lives, and doing what's popular rarely changes the system.

Doing what's right isn't something we get to accept to run out of funding, capacity, or resources for: it's something we commit to even when our privilege makes it equally possible and enticing not to. Doing what's convenient and expected in DEI will get you rewards and attention ... just no impact and transformation. Awareness and intention are great excuses when you can't account for tangible results. For us, it's simple: we use DEI to create multi-generational wealth and impact for and with the communities and Peoples least expected to thrive and in doing so we empower them to forevermore become the first ones to rise. So if you are either a bad*ass leader who cares or someone who looks like me and the opposite of White privilege and you're looking to create poverty-ending-level type of freedom and impact this is the place for you. Welcome to OUR revolution.