The Equity Gap
Uncovering inequity. Empowering change.
Hosted by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner Shahzia Noorally, The Equity Gap is where bold conversations meet transformative action. Through candid interviews with leading experts and thought-provoking solo episodes, Shahzia explores the real-world impact of systemic inequity—centering the lived experiences of equity-deserving individuals and challenging power structures across workplaces and beyond.
From race and gender to neurodiversity and anti-fat bias, each episode tackles hard truths and invites listeners to reimagine what equity really means—on personal, organizational, and societal levels.
Whether you're a DEI professional, a leader ready to use your privilege for good, or someone seeking to deepen your social consciousness, The Equity Gap will educate, unsettle, and inspire.
Join the conversation. Close the gap.
The Equity Gap
Reconciling white influence and supremacy in my life, reflections on anti-racism
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As a person of colour, my entire existence has been defined in some way by the white people in my life. White leaders, white politicians, white beauty standards and white voices have been at the forefront of my important influences, and as I’ve come to find value in my own voice, presence, identity and worth as a woman of colour, what I struggle with now is reconciling the depth of that influence and its impact on me, both the good and the bad...
Join Shahzia Noorally on a journey of personal reflection to reconcile the influence of white privilege in her own life and career, a timely conversation to explore. With all the race related and political atrocities in the US at the hands of white supremacists that have turned 2020 and 2021 upside down, the inner conflict as a person to colour to not "go low" and to not pit ourselves against those in the majority is difficult, but the conversation focuses on challenging ourselves to turn to inner reflection and the opportunity to "go high," changing the narrative to focus on humanity, empathy and compassion.
