{"id":53175,"date":"2017-04-02T01:04:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53175"},"modified":"2017-04-02T14:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:16:03","slug":"making-inclusion-moments-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53175","title":{"rendered":"Making inclusion \u201cmoments\u201d happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civilservice.blog.gov.uk\/2017\/03\/31\/making-inclusion-moments-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Making inclusion \u201cmoments\u201d happen<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civilservice.blog.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Service Blog<\/a><br \/>\nGovernment of the United Kingdom<br \/>\n2017-03-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/hayley-trezel-b8204923\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hayley Trezel<\/strong><\/a>, Head of Transformation<br \/>\n<em>Parole Board for England and Wales<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/civilservice.blog.gov.uk\/2017\/03\/31\/making-inclusion-moments-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/civilservice.blog.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2017\/03\/Hayley-Trezel-768x512.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hayley Trezel compares her experience of working in the Civil Service with that of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/BAME\" target=\"_blank\">BAME<\/a> colleagues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To quote a phrase from a team of colleagues I respect and admire: &#8220;Moments don\u2019t just happen.&#8221; I appreciate the truth of this when considering my own journey and &#8216;moment&#8217; of clarity on the race agenda.<\/p>\n<p>I am a 32-year-old working mum, having worked at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/parole-board\" target=\"_blank\">Parole Board<\/a> for the past 8 years. I am a woman of colour, though I still shy away from referring to myself as black. I was brought up to be very proud of my mixed-race heritage. I have been asked on numerous occasions, \u201cwhere are you from?\u201d, \u00a0and I take pleasure in explaining my heritage and seeing the surprise on people\u2019s faces&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/civilservice.blog.gov.uk\/2017\/03\/31\/making-inclusion-moments-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayley Trezel compares her experience of working in the Civil Service with that of BAME colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,23674,10],"tags":[26751,26752,26756],"class_list":["post-53175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-uk","tag-civil-service-blog","tag-hayley-trezel","tag-parole-board-for-england-and-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53182,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175\/revisions\/53182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}