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title: Your Voice is an Act of Resistance
description: Join us for a powerful conversation with attorney Isioma Nwabuzor, a DREAMer sharing the unseen hardships of being an immigrant in the US. Learn about inclusive workplaces and her organization's uplifting work.
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I am so glad that you’re here joining us today for such a wonderful conversation I had with Isioma Nwabuzor, an attorney in the Milwaukee area. Currently, she works with Robert W. Baird, an employee-owned financial services firm, supporting the firm’s US and UK transactions in its private equity business. Isioma is a DREAMer, and in this episode, she shares some of the unseen and unknown hardships of what it is like to be an immigrant in the US, how companies can do a better job of being inclusive, and she also shares information about her organization, The Dreamer Next Door Incorporated and the work they are doing to lift others as we rise.

## Topics in this episode

- The DREAM act
- Living in a state of limbo as a DREAMer
- The implications of being a DREAMer
- Things that those in leadership roles can do to help alleviate some of the challenges of employees who are in marginalized demographics
- What inclusion looks like in the workplace
- Education is the ground-zero for empathy
- The trauma of carrying the weight of a marginalized identity

## Connect

- [Website](https://iamisioma.com/)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/isioman/)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/IsiomaN)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/IsiomaNwabuzor)

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