In a year that has seen COVID-19 change the way people live and work, police brutality has also raised questions about the safety of marginalized communities in the U.S. Following the killings of Black Americans such as George Floyd, companies have attempted to use one-one-one meetings and more transparent communication to better engage employees on difficult topics.

But for Black technologists such as Roger Campbell II and those of other minority groups in the tech workforce, having to explain your lived experience to people from different backgrounds can be a burden when you already need to be twice as good at your job to be taken seriously.

Campbell said that allowing employees of different backgrounds to share their learned experiences cannot come at the expense of their emotional labor.

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