Podcasts
3/26/26 · Everyday Equity with Pooja Kothari · Everyday Ways to Make a Change (S3, Ep. 5)
8/25/25 · I Hate It Here · Is the Future of Work F*cked?
2025 · She+ Geeks Out · Valuing Labor in a World Built on Extraction
2025 · Stay with Jaya Ramesh · Abrupt Endings: Lessons on Conflict and Collaboration
8/9/23 · Social Responsibility at Work · Crafting Thriving Workplaces
2023 · Digital Transformation Success · Digital Transformation That Inspires Safe, Inclusive, and Diverse Workspaces
3/8/22 · All Voices: Reimagining Company Culture · Take a Lifecycle Approach to DEI
2022 · Invisible Ink · Bringing Data Discipline to DEI
2022 · Inclusive Collective · The State of DEI
11/18/21 · Fierce Lab · How Trauma Affects the Workplace
6/1/21 · Conversations About Closets · Being Bold with Today's Challenges, Equipping Businesses for DEI, and Nordstrom
5/15/20 · The Big Know · Pandemic Inequity
Speaking & Live Events
9/15/26 · Liminal Works, sponsored by SVP Seattle · Reclaiming Our Digital Power: Safeguarding Movements & Community Organizations in the PNW
8/26 · COUNT + Fearless Foundry (RailSpur, Seattle) · Relationships Are the Strategy: A Conversation About AI and the Work Only We Can Do
5/13–14/26 · Call for Culture, Culture Impact Lab (Chicago) · Dignity in Motion
6/5–7/25 · National Academy of Public Administration, Social Equity Leadership Conference · Frederickson Lecture
5/24 · Call for Culture, Culture Impact Lab (Chicago) · Culture Change Doesn't Scale
9/23 · Seattle CityClub, Civic Cocktail · Jobs, Affordability & the Future of Major Sporting Events in Seattle
2022 · Women in Tech Regatta (Seattle) · What to Do with Vulnerability and Employee Voice?
2/22 · PowerToFly Summit · How to Support Black Leadership as a Non-Black PoC
5/21 · Bank of America · Panel: Data-Informed Practices to Uplift Women at Work
3/17/21 · Institute for Sustainable Diversity & Inclusion · Leveraging the Roots of Resistance for Inclusive Transformation
5/22/20 · Future for Us Assembly (virtual) · How COVID-19 Impacts the Future of Work & Womxn of Color
3/20 · SXSW · State of Womxn of Color: Community + Culture + Career
11/8/19 · The Riveter Capitol Hill · State of Womxn of Color: The Future of Work Belongs to Us
11/7/19 · The Collective, Seattle · State of Womxn of Color Summit
10/11/19 · The Riveter Portland · State of Womxn of Color Portland
Fall 2019 · The Riveter · State of Womxn of Color Roadshow: Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis
6/19 · Nourish · Her Stories
5/19 · Seattle Business Magazine, Daring Women Summit · Keynote
5/8/19 · ChickTech, ACT-W Conference · Keynote
4/27/19 · Future for Us Assembly · The Status of Womxn of Color at Work
4/19 · CreativeMornings Seattle · Inclusion at Work Is a Daily Habit and Choice
2/19 · PowerToFly
10/23–26/18 · SOCAP18 (San Francisco) · Moving to Action on Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity
2018 · WTIA Ion · Panel
1/18 · The Riveter Capitol Hill · Intersectional Feminism Panel, Women's March
Press & Features
9/21/22 · Puget Sound Business Journal · 40 Under 40: Aparna Rae
4/12/22 · Entrepreneur · The Surprising Hiring Lesson Revealed in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
2022 · PR Newswire · Moving Beyond Launches Platform to Put Science and Data to Work Building Equitable, Inclusive Organizations
2/11/22 · Business Insider · Salesforce Will Tie Executive Pay to DEI and Sustainability
6/26/21 · Mindhatch · What 5 DEI Experts Say You Should Do Right Now to Build an Equitable Workplace
3/4/21 · GSBA · Workplace Study at the Intersection of DEI and Wellbeing
2021 · Women Donors Network · Meet Aparna Rae: She's Doing Big Things in DEI
2021 · Armoire · Bosslady Spotlight
11/14/20 · Business Insider · Four Years Ago, Salesforce Hired a Rock Star Executive to Fix Workplace Diversity. Insiders Are Disappointed.
6/9/20 · Puget Sound Business Journal · Need to Address DEI in Your Workplace? Here's Where to Start
6/6/20 · Business Insider · The Tech Industry Has a Terrible Track Record on Diversity
Bylines & Guest Writing
2022 · GeekWire · Crying CEO Post Provides Leadership Lessons on Authentic Vulnerability
4/7/22 · Inside Philanthropy · Hiring a DEI Consultant? Here's How to Avoid Exacerbating Inequity in the Process
1/4/21 · Phila · The Gift of Radical Empathy
2019 · Evoke · Contributor page