Black on Bay Street: Hadiya Roderique had it all. But still could not fit in
Hadiya Roderique, a Black woman and former Bay Street lawyer-turned Ph.D. candidate, authored a powerful and poignant essay, entitled, “Black on Bay Street: Hadiya Roderique had it all. But still could not fit in“.
The essay was featured on the front page of the Saturday, November 4, 2017, edition of The Globe and Mail. The essay exposes the persistent lack of diversity on Bay Street, and highlights the challenges many racialized minorities feel as applicants and young professionals while they try to enter or thrive within a Canadian corporate culture which remains overwhelmingly white and male. Roderique stated, that she wrote this piece because, “I left law in 2012; and went through the interview process in 2006, and here we are in 2017, and law firms are still using the same process and fit interviews that made me uncomfortable, and I wanted to speak out and effect some kind of change.”
Have you read Black on Bay Street: Hadiya Roderique had it all. But still could not fit in? What did you think?