Like every New Yorker, I know this place is magic. I know this place is amazing. I know that we have come back time and time again from a great recession, from high crime rates, from 9/11, from crisis after crisis.
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The innovations we need at our systems level require an understanding of business, psychology, and policy, but doing it with a deep, deep understanding of how our decisions create barriers for fairness and opportunity for some people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Innovations in systems require a holistic understanding of various disciplines to ensure fairness and opportunity for all.
Maya Wiley emphasizes the importance of integrating knowledge from business, psychology, and policy to drive meaningful innovations in our systems. She warns that while pursuing these innovations, we must also be acutely aware of how our decisions may inadvertently create inequalities and barriers that affect marginalized communities, thereby highlighting the need for equitable solutions.
Themes
InnovationUnderstandingFairnessOpportunitySystems
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a presentation about social justice and innovation in policy-making.
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