The Equity Gap
Uncovering inequity. Empowering change.
Hosted by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner Shahzia Noorally, The Equity Gap is where straight talk conversations meet transformative action. Through candid interviews with leading experts and thought-provoking solo episodes, Shahzia explores the real-world impact of systemic inequity through centering the lived experiences of equity-deserving people and challenging power structures across workplaces and beyond.
From race and gender to neurodiversity and anti-fat bias, each episode tackles hard truths and invites listeners to reimagine what equity really means - on personal, organizational, and societal levels.
Whether you're a DEI professional, a leader ready to use your privilege for good, or someone seeking to deepen your social consciousness, The Equity Gap will educate, unsettle, and inspire.
Join the conversation. Close the gap.
Host note: In the spirit of not being a slave to productivity and capitalistic systems that push us to produce to the point of exhaustion, this podcast is not updated regularly but rather only when I'm inspired, rested and when I feel I have something meaningful to contribute. Enjoy! - Shahzia Noorally
The Equity Gap
Latest Episodes
Continuing to hold space for hope and heartbreak: How rest, joy and community can keep us a float
Welcome. I'm so glad you're here and I'm so glad to be back talking about the most important things on my heart. In our last episode we started by exploring how to stay awake in a world that desperately wants us to tune out. A world...
Holding space for hope and heartbreak: how do we stay awake in a world that wants us to go numb?
We’re watching fascism unfold in real time.The worst part? We're told to stay neutral. To debate both sides.I’m done compartmentalizing my humanity.This new episode asks: how do we stay awake in a world that wants us to ...
Dismantling your anti-fat bias with Vinny Welsby, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author
Vinny Welsby (they/them) is a world-leading expert on dismantling anti-fat bias and diet-culture, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author. They went from being homeless and abused with self-esteem that was achingly low into the courageous fat act...
Progressive until Palestine - The silence of equity practitioners in an urgent time. A conversation with Chris Hooten, Speaker, Strategist, Writer and Educator
I first came across Chris Hooten on LinkedIn about a month ago when I had so many thoughts swirling in my head around the silence of so many equity and inclusion professionals in my circles of influence with the ongoing genocide in Gaza. A ...
How urgency culture harms us all with Lydia Phillip - Storyteller, Published Writer and Researcher
Today you're in for a real treat, a conversation with someone who has a beautiful capacity to help us all rethink the way we work and the way we resign ourselves to urgency culture, to upholding the systems of white supremacy and capitalism - t...
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