What is it like to work as an analyst on the CrowdStrike Falcon® Counter Adversary Operations Elite team? Ask Arielle Cronig:
🤝 Arielle works with customers who utilize CrowdStrike’s threat hunting and premium threat intelligence modules.
🔖 Analysts like Arielle serve as a go-between for customers and CrowdStrike’s internal intelligence by cultivating a hand-tailored intelligence solution for customers.
🔒 She has supported customers during global events, elections and international crises and has seen firsthand how CrowdStrike threat intelligence can mitigate major world events.
🏳️🌈 Arielle also served as president of the company’s LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group for three years.
Read Arielle's full story on our blog: https://lnkd.in/eTqgJBrs
Arielle’s work with CrowdStrike highlights the critical role of tailored threat intelligence in mitigating global threats. Her experience underscores the value of expert analysts in protecting against major world events.
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
For me, Pride Month is a time for focused celebration...
But the spirit of Pride - acceptance, diversity, and self-expression - should be embraced all year round. 🤗
In the right spirit of Pride - let's celebrate the incredible progress the LGBTQ+ community has made, but also acknowledge the journey that still lies ahead.
At the moment we might face setbacks, even in areas where progress seemed assured. But positive change starts with INDIVIDUAL actions. 💪
🙌 And remember - Acceptance is KEY!
You don't have to personally identify as LGBTQ+ to understand that everyone deserves to be themselves, free from judgment. We all have diverse backgrounds, values, and beliefs. By simply accepting these differences and fostering open-mindedness, we create a more inclusive world for everyone.
I recently came across this article and I think it is a powerful reminder that acceptance in the workplace matters and goes beyond performative gestures;
💫 "How Companies Are Getting LGBTQ+ Inclusion Wrong (and How to Fix It)
(https://lnkd.in/ezeeJgyd)
Let's work together to build a world where acceptance is the norm, not the exception. 🤝
#PrideMonth#Acceptance#Inclusion#LGBTQ+ #LondonPride#Picsart#PicsartTalent
🌈 Celebrating Pride is a means of creating truly inclusive and safe spaces for LGBTQ+ individuals. Reiner John Eranes Macaranas, an Admissions Advisor at Thrive DX, reflects on the significance of Pride as a platform for embracing one's identity openly and without reservation:
"Pride celebrations should be a safe space for LGBTQ+ people to celebrate parts of ourselves we may hide.
Parades and other events allow us to be ourselves with pride, rather than hide aspects of who we are behind closed doors, which some of us have to do more often than others.
🌟 This is how I celebrate Pride: learning, reading, creating, sharing LGBTQ+ content, and reminding myself of my worth every day, even after June.
🌟 How can allies best support their LGBTQ+ colleagues? Take time to examine your personal biases when making decisions about hiring, mentoring, and promoting staff members.
Reflect on how your biases might influence these processes and consider ways to ensure fair and equal opportunities for LGBTQ+ individuals.
Strive to create diverse and inclusive teams that embrace the talents and contributions of everyone.
🌟 My message to the community is something Lady Gaga said: Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.”
#PrideMonth#DiversityInCybersecurity#InclusionMatters
Social Media Managers, this one is for you: Happy June! I love seeing people and brands supporting LGBTQ+ people publicly- especially with so much at stake, especially for our trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming community members. If you're in charge of a brand's social media channel, your job doesn't end with the Pride post. PLEASE monitor the comments for hate speech and bigotry. You have a responsibility to the LGBTQ+ community to make your pride post a safe space. Online words have real-life consequences- and remember, Pride is a parade second, a protest first.
Director of Plinth House, a training and consultancy agency which supports the higher education sector to respond to complex student cases, incidents, and student distress
The post I have reposted here is a good example of “allyship” in action.
It is worth noting that, as lesbians, gay men and bisexual people, we fought for and won important freedoms and legal equality throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s without any talk of “allyship”.
And, crucially, we achieved this, in large part, by disagreeing with each other *within* our community.
For example, when Peter Tatchell was arguing for lowering the age of consent to 14 (at a time when we didn’t even have an equal age of consent), many of us disagreed with his demands and felt his demands were harmful to our cause. We had a lot of internal discussions within the community about this. (I remember…I was there.) And this disagreement was really important because politicians got to hear different perspectives from us, with the end result being that a much more appropriate and moderate campaign for equality won through.
But, over the past few years (since around 2016), what “allyship” has done (among other things) is to assume that we L, G, B, T and Q (and plus) people are all politically aligned. After all, it is not possible to be a political “ally” to a politically diverse community - only to a false, politically homogenised version of that community.
This meant that some of us, within our community, with certain political views, have had the added weight of straight “allies” behind us, while others of us (often the more moderate among us) have not. Those of us, within our community, without “ally” backing have often been ostracised or simply chosen to go quiet.
The chilling effect of “allyship” over the past few years has therefore been to make it much harder for us to disagree with each other *within* our community.
The result, in my personal view, has been that we have made some really unhelpful political demands that were not properly scrutinised within our community. And society will be struggling to resolve the fallout from this for some time to come.
This is why I don’t want straight people, or leaders and managers, to be active political allies, advocating for us or publicly stating your support for some homogenised version of our community.
Thank you for the kind offer (and I do think it is meant in kindness), but, instead of your allyship, I just want you to listen. Listen well, and listen to all of us - in all our diversity.
Head Non-Core & Legacy, President EMEA, GEB Lead Sustainability & Impact and UK CEO
Last week, I had the pleasure of celebrating our newly-integrated Pride & Allies Network with colleagues in London. We had a great turnout with over 60 colleagues coming together to catch-up and toast to our commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all. At the start of the year, the network rebranded to ‘Pride & Allies’ globally, to reflect our integrated firm and the value of allyship. As executive sponsor, and as we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, I’m proud to be part of a network where everyone is welcome, no matter sexual orientation, gender identity or background.
CEO, Purpose-Driven Leader, Keynote Speaker, Investor and Author. Focused on growth strategies, ESG, sustainability, social Impact and communications. Board member. Forbes 50 over 50
Reading the headlines in 2023, it may have seemed as if consumer brands lost big when it came to LGBTQ issues. Dozens of companies faced social-media attacks—in some cases boycotts—over their support for Pride month, among other things. And some of those corporations took a sales hit during the furor. The real picture shows that corporations are continuing their support for LGBTQ inclusion and representation in marketing—despite threats and boycotts. More than 60 companies from a variety of industries, for instance, signed GLAAD’s joint statement of support for LGBTQ people at the end of June.
This next year will be a test of that support. The critics are still out there and, more broadly, lawmakers in many states are considering bills that restrict LGBTQ rights.
Powerful piece by GLAAD's CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis in the The Wall Street Journal.
#ESG#socialimpact#socialgood#CSR#DEI#equalitydiversityinclusion
In honor of #PrideMonth, #NCQA's LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group hosted a training on gender-expansive allyship in the workplace. Special thanks to our amazing facilitator, Joli M. Ienuso, MEd, for sharing their insight and creating a safe space for conversation and exploration of this important topic!
Read our recent blog post to find out what we learned: https://bit.ly/3zdy5qy
🌈 For my last post in June, here's a roundup of everything I created about Trust & Safety for the LGBTQ+ community this Pride Season (with one NEW resource!)
- The Importance of Anti-Bias Training in Content Moderation ( ✨ new blog post, PartnerHero - WITH examples): https://lnkd.in/eE5QUJHd
- A Guide to Protecting LGBTQ+ Users (newsletter with practical tips no matter your role, Everything in Moderation): https://lnkd.in/eSDYuQkT
- It’s My Job To Yell At People - how social media can better protect the LGBTQ community (Podcast interview with Jenni Olson of GLAAD for Trust In Tech @ Integrity Institute- this sparked the "importance of anti-bias training article, actually!): https://lnkd.in/eTSSe6ib
And resources from years past:
- let’s talk about protecting the LGBTQ+ Community Online (podcast interview with Alex Leavitt, PhD for Trust in Tech) https://lnkd.in/eeemPzZ9
- Best Practices for Gender Inclusive Content Moderation (whitepaper written with Vanity Brown and Lily Galib for Grindr) https://lnkd.in/e3zhK2_4
It's always important to protect LGBTQ+ rights and expression, so expect more from me throughout the year... but I always enjoy a good excuse to be just a little bit louder in June 😎
When you can show up as your authentic self every day, work life is better for everyone! Check out these resources from across the web:
🏳️🌈 Get advice on presenting your authentic self during the job search with these resources from Indeed: https://ow.ly/shA650SmQMm
🏳️🌈 Discover the best companies who support LGBTQ+ workers and learn how to spot an inclusive company on Monster:
https://ow.ly/CMA250SmQMq
🏳️🌈Build a more equitable workplace for LGBTQ+ employees with this advice on LinkedIn: https://ow.ly/RNLw50SmQMw#PrideMonth, #Diversity, #Equity, #Inclusion, #Careers, #WorkplaceCulture
Arielle’s work with CrowdStrike highlights the critical role of tailored threat intelligence in mitigating global threats. Her experience underscores the value of expert analysts in protecting against major world events.