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Honestly, I wouldn’t remove it. Leading events, planning, and growing membership are solid leadership and organizational skills. Plus, it shows initiative. If a company sees DEI work as a red flag, is that somewhere you’d want to be? Your volunteer work reflects values and skills they should value too.
Take it off.
But don’t remove the experience, the initiatives you lead, etc. Make things about what you accomplished and why YOU were chosen, not the reason the effort was being done.
You have skills and experience that are of value.
However, “read the room”, any organization you would want to work for has swung to the new POTUS, unless you have a moral objection ( it seems the CEOs don’t) focus on what you can contribute.
Work is about making $$ (with benefits) leading to making more of the same.
If you want to make a difference, take some of that comp and donate it to those orgs that are leading the way.
Keep it. Be proud of who you are. And be proud of what you're doing. I empathize with your concern. There will be a lot of problems in the next months and years. But hiding mention of your leadership qualities seems like a bad idea. If people are going to discriminate against for that, well, they're not going to give you any opportunity anyway.
Not full of fear. Who are you to presume what I feel?
“Show up work….” I assume you’re trying to say show up and work? I can’t show up to a job I don’t have.
“Keep moving forward” I’ve built an e-commerce website for myself to sell seeds from my property, a foraging mobile app that documents foraged plants, tracks processes and product for herbalists and I’ve built a greenhouse to grow my own food, so the next time you want to comment remember how foolish you look when you presume to know what you clearly know nothing about.
Do not obey in advance.
You need to stand you ground. You must resist this as much as possible. You shouldn't take the anti-DEI lying down. Your experiences as a Hispanic person should not hold you back. I recommend you get in touch with the National Urban League, who are fighting anti-DEI at every turn. Here's a link for more info: https://thegrio.com/2025/01/27/stay-tuned-civil-rights-groups-prepare-to-take-on-trumps-dei-distortion-campaign/
It really is about common sense. The way I see it, the key word there is "chair", as it proves that you possess a set of skills that make you valuable to the organization. For that reason, I would not remove it.
With this whole DEI thing, I think that being hired or not due to race, age, disabilities, etc. is just not right
I would not want to work for a company that hires me or not just because I am a Mexican, short, brown, heterosexual man in my 50s.
Ultimately play it smart for the corporate world. If your future employer may not care about it, and it becomes another ‘volunteer effort’ on your resume without being discussed during your interview process. If they care and have similar official programs, you can verbally share more details and share your enthusiasm towards wanting to contribute to similar initiatives in the new job.
Does your well deserved sense of pride NEED to be projected on your LinkedIn, or on your resume? No.
Treat it just like another volunteer program or hobby you dedicate time to. Detach the emotion.
Don’t remove it, consider altering the language to be neutral and factual, vs emotional / inflammatory. Don’t make it sound like “I don’t want to work at a company that doesn’t support DEI programs”, because IF that truly was the case you would not be applying to work at those companies, right?
It’s about your choice of words and the unfortunate biased perceptions people could derive from the way you choose to present yourself.
I personally would be vague about it. You helped employees at your company be more active in your company and you planned events, training, and recruitment. The goal is to impact change, you can still do those things without announcing it. The same way a lot of Venture capitalists only went to "Stanford or Harvard", they don't announce it, nor do you need to.
I’ll be the first to say DEI stuff is overboard in corporate.. but you made it to a leadership area where a lot of people were attempting to make it. It shows that you in fact were earning it based on merit.. which counters the DEI narrative
Take it off. Resumes are all about hitting the keywords, and that's just one from the dustbin of history. You need to stay current in the market place. This is about your career, not a political statement.
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Remove it. You can still keep your experience with leadership.
No.
It doesn't have anything to do with hiring practices or company policy its a volunteer support group.