What’s in a Name?

Sharon Hurley Hall and Jevin Lortie reflect on implicit bias

Sharon Hurley Hall
4 min readAug 4, 2020

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Cups of coffee — cover photo for What’s in a Name by Sharon Hurley Hall and Jevin Lortie
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

”What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” — Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.

How does your name affect your chances of getting work and the treatment you get? It can be a…

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Sharon Hurley Hall

Antiracism activist, author, educator. https://www.antiracismnewsletter.com/ Co-Founder, Mission Equality. Co-host: Introvert Sisters . She/her.