In this episode of The Bánh Mì Chronicles, I’m joined by Dr. Akilah Cadet—author, founder, and executive coach of Change Cadet (@changecadet on IG) for a no-holds-barred and necessary conversation on what it must take to dismantle systemic barriers and show up fully in spaces that weren’t built for us.
We get into the weeds on the following:
Navigating White-Majority Spaces: What it really looks like through the intersectional lens of Black, women, and disabled identity.
Intentional Accessibility: Moving beyond bare minimum checkboxes to build genuine, thoughtful access and equity for disabled folks.
White Adjacency in BIPOC Communities: Unpacking how proximity to whiteness and being trapped in a colonized mindset operates within communities of color and how we can work toward collective unlearning.
Bio:
Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet, a creative organizational development consulting firm that offers services that support embedding belonging into overall company culture, identity, strategy and storytelling (you know what Donald is actively attacking). As a Forbes Next 1000 Entrepreneur and one of San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women of the Bay Area, her work is behind some of the biggest brands you use every day. Dismantling white supremacy through storytelling is at the core of her work as a leader, speaker, creative director, producer, writer, editor, co-owner of the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer teams (she led the most successful community investment round in sports history), host of Humane Rights podcast and author of White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World. She literally has all the degrees, lives in and loves Oakland, CA, celebrates her disability, is a proud Beyoncé advocate, and has an incredible shoe game.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
