How to Be an Ally to Colleagues After Violence Against Their Community

Highly publicized, harmful, and often violent events that target marginalized community members — also called mega-threats — occur far too frequently in the United States. In the last few months alone, a shooting occurred at an LGBTQ+ night club in Colorado Springs, two mass shootings took place in California that targeted people of Asian descent, antisemitic rhetoric continued to rise, and a Black man named Tyre Nichols was killed at the hands of Memphis police officers.