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Dejia Brooks

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Bio

I am a young black woman in hope of going to an HBCU for college. I attend Lindblom Math and Science Academy in Chicago, IL. I love participating in extracurricular activities and keeping myself busy. I am trying my best to get scholarships to take the burden of high tuition off my parents' shoulders. I am determined to make myself useful while also enjoying my youth and my high school experience. I enjoy playing softball and tennis and I hope to join my schools' majorette team when I go back to school next year. I am also part of my schools' poetry team "Writers Bloque". I participate in the food pantry at Metropolitian community church while also participating in the Mime group there. I am working hard on leaving my mark on the world!

Education

Lindblom Math & Science Acad Hs

High School
2019 - 2023

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

    Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)

  • Majors of interest:

    • Neurobiology and Neurosciences
    • Human Biology
  • Planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Hospital & Health Care

    • Dream career goals:

      Neurologist or Anesthesiologist

      Sports

      Tennis

      Varsity
      2019 – Present5 years

      Softball

      Junior Varsity
      2020 – Present4 years

      Awards

      • no

      Arts

      • Lindblom Spring play

        Music
        Lindbloms spring musical
        2021 – 2021

      Public services

      • Volunteering

        Precious Jewels — Member
        2018 – Present

      Future Interests

      Volunteering

      Penny Collins Scholarship
      Hello, My name is Dejia and I can address such challenges by negotiation, confrontation, or taking it to a person of higher power and if I am the highest power taking action myself. In the workspace, there are many incidents of racism, class restrictions, and discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. Within the workspace, the only people looking over your shoulder or checking on you are employees or a boss if you have one so it would be best to maintain a pleasant relationship with your coworkers. To maintain a pleasant relationship one cannot display hostile intent towards a coworker once they experience intersectionality. One must keep their composure and try to talk down the situation though if that doesn't work other measures have to be taken. No matter what you can not go off on your coworkers and create a hostile environment or you may risk being marked as the problem in your workplace. The next step to take if negotiation or talking down an interaction doesn't work is a confrontation with said person or people. when you confront said person it should not lead to a brawl but it should be a conversation about their actions in the workplace and how it affects you. The confrontation should be an action taken to get them to understand you and should be made on your own time after work. You should try to confront the one who is engaging in the discrimination alone but with someone in the background to help deescalate the situation if a brawl were about to happen. The last step I would take is to bring it up to the boss of whatever company, office, or workplace you are at. By telling your boss you are at the end of this process of dealing with intersectionality, your boss should be capable of getting this employee to stop engaging in such activity or fire that person. This alone should be enough to get that person to understand you are not someone who will sit there and deal with such discrimination. If you are the boss none of the previous steps work for you that employee often has a deep hatred or deep-rooted discrimination that most wouldn't want in their workspace. Having a person who is engaging in discrimination or racism and such is a bad representation for any company. Also if the fact that a company has such a person and tolerates a person that engages in intersectionality in its cancel culture may end up ending that companies financial gain. The best thing for your workplace would be to fire them or come up with a punishment such as docking payment. This should be the last step to take.