Guest Blog: Journey to Allyship (Part 4): How Life Experiences Helped Me Overcome Bias and Bigotry

Over the past few months, my friends at The Diversity Movement have graciously given me a platform to share my personal journey of awakening, as I’ve shed both bias and outright bigotry toward those who are different from me over the course of these 50 trips I’ve made around the sun. In short, I was raised in the deep South in a culture that could be outright hateful at times, both openly and behind closed doors, especially toward people of color and those representing the LGBTQ+ spectrum. But in the years since, life has confronted me with people and situations that summoned me to be a better human.