Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Wisdom from a white woman about racial healing like you’ve never heard it before. Diana Roman is a direct descendent of the largest slave-owning family in United States History, and after a life-changing discovery, she founded and is a co-trainer of Diversity Dialogues, an organization focused on race in America and practical solutions to enable racial healing. In this episode, Connie dives into the hard questions regarding racial division and how to heal. Diana shares enlightening details of our country’s history with racial trauma and transformational truths that will ignite our healing.
- Walks us through her life journey and how her passion for healing racial division began.
- Enlightens us about the true realities of our racial conflicts and struggles and the healing that we all need.
- Shares her passion for her organization’s unique style of training that heals and resolves our racial divide.
Diana is the founder and co-trainer of Diversity Dialogues, an organization focused on training change agents to rise to the challenge of contributing positively to a multicultural America. Their curriculum focuses on race in America and practical solutions to enable racial healing. She is a direct descendent of the Hairston family, which is the largest slave-owning family in US history. Her passion for diversity and inclusion was born out of her own reconciliation with her family’s past along with a better understanding the legacy slavery has created and how she can help the healing process.
Formerly, she was a marketing and international business development professional with a long career at Proctor & Gamble in commercial business development. She managed major customers including McDonald’s, Chick-fil-a, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Westin. While based in Singapore, she managed the Global Exports Marketing Division that launched products in 12 major Asian markets. While at Z Group, she developed brand strategies for Disney + Fox Network and provided key data insights on the team that developed the winning election strategy for Mexican president Vicente Fox.
“It’s such a better world when we are connecting and loving and forgiving than when we are hating and accusatory and judging.” — Diana Roman
—
Resources:
Website:
https://diversitydialogues.net/
https://ourblackancestry.com/
https://www.hairstonfamilygenealogy.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-roman-b690b737/
