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Author: Tammy L. Hodo

Dr. Hodo is the founder and President of All Things Diverse LLC, which provides consulting services to businesses, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and government entities who value diversity and want to develop a high performing inclusive workforce. All Things Diverse, LLC is dedicated to helping organizations realize the full potential that can only be achieved through deliberate action. The company is committed to helping its clients create a workplace culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Some of the services her company offer include diversity, equity, and inclusion training and workshops, assessments and surveys, strategic diversity planning and diversity audits. Tammy earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Urban Studies, with a minor in Sociology in which she specializations in Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity. She worked in academia for over 20 years in a variety of positions, including faculty and university administrator. Tammy continues to be active in academia as she writes academic articles relevant to the experiences of minorities in America. Her most recent publications (2021) are two chapters In African American Families: Research, Theory, and Practice, which was published by Cognella Academic Publishing. Recently she completed a book with colleagues entitled: How to Engage in Difficult Dialogue Surrounding, Identity, Race, and Politics in Higher Education: A Practical Guide for Faculty, which was published in 2023 by Routledge. Her company has had contracts with the City of Jacksonville addressing policing and trust with minority communities (Safer Together). The City of Tampa training employees on Diversity and Implicit Bias as well as the federal government division of Veterans Administration in which we teach employees about Cultural Competency, Microaggressions and Communication Styles, just to name a few. Dr. Hodo has written course content for an educational vendor on Implicit Bias and Microaggressions https://www.vectorsolutions.com/resources/blogs/implicit-bias-microaggressions-higher-education/ A course on Discrimination Awareness in the workplace https://www.vectorsolutions.com/course-details-edu/discrimination-awareness-in-the-workplace/ss-staff/course-discrimination_awareness/. She is also a TEDx speaker, she discussed the Social Implications of Race https://youtu.be/a4jPGhN5TCM. She is a service-connected disabled veteran of the U.S. Navy.
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Is Honesty Too Much To Ask For Christmas?

December 9, 2024 Tammy L. Hodo

I love the Lord with all my heart and know that He sits high on the throne, not looking down on us, but over us.  One can’t help but wonder, particularly as a woman of color, when will America see … Continue reading Is Honesty Too Much To Ask For Christmas?

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Fear Is The Factor!

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Tammy L. Hodo

In 1655, Elizabeth Key Grinstead, a multiethnic woman filed suit in Virginia seeking freedom based on her father’s European lineage and won her court case.  Not long after Elizabeth’s verdict the State of Virginia sought to ensure other multiethnic people … Continue reading Fear Is The Factor!

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Here to Stay!

June 8, 2024 Tammy L. Hodo

Webster’s dictionary defines resiliency as “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.”[1]  I understand that change is hard and is often incremental when it comes to equity surrounding issues of race, sex, and power.  With … Continue reading Here to Stay!

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It’s Clear to me that Systemic Racism is embedded in American Institutions: Do you see it at play?

April 8, 2024 Tammy L. Hodo

Fannie Lou Hamer stated, “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”  I am tired of the truth being distorted, I am sick of people believing that there is equality in America, and I am tired of being … Continue reading It’s Clear to me that Systemic Racism is embedded in American Institutions: Do you see it at play?

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Truth Telling

February 8, 2024 Tammy L. Hodo

James Baldwin recognized in “Take Me to the Water” that Children attempting to get an education, in a country in which education is a synonym for indoctrination if you are white and subjugation if you’re black [1] that we should … Continue reading Truth Telling

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Can there ever be Peace on Earth?

December 8, 2023 Tammy L. Hodo

Do humans want peace on earth?  In a world filled with stratification based on various variables such as religion, ethnicity, sex, race, socioeconomic status, political ideology, etc. is peace on earth even possible?  We have people unhoused, hungry, and struggling … Continue reading Can there ever be Peace on Earth?

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Is There Really an Effort to Dismantle Health Inequity in America?

November 8, 2023 Tammy L. Hodo

I often wonder how much our indigenous brothers and sisters regret feeding the “illegal immigrants” who arrived in what we now call “The Americas.”  Genocide and Boarding schools ensued shortly after the arrival of the “settlers” who came upon a … Continue reading Is There Really an Effort to Dismantle Health Inequity in America?

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