Jasmine Pogue on LinkedIn: #crownact #blackhair (2024)

Jasmine Pogue

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I am inspired by the many women on my feed sharing their 2021 Hair in review based on the post by Yelitsa Jean-Charles. For Black women, hair is a source of pride and joy and a source of pain and shame. I've always been one to be anti conformity and one way to express that is through hair. This year, a few Black women at my job and I got together to challenge the way our company, T-Mobile, describes professional hair. As many of us would have to be back in the office, we did not want to have to give up our braids and locs and fros and twists in favor of straight hair. That sparked a change when Peta Carcone, MBA, ITIL, CSPO, CSM, POPM (she/her) took that conversation to HR and her management in her channel, and successfully updated our policy to include specific language for natural and protective hairstyles consistent with the wearer's culture and religion. I'm so grateful for her engaging in that dialogue and for T-Mobile leadership listening and responding swiftly.I am so excited about this change and that women wearing their hair in its natural form or in protective hairstyles is becoming the norm. Here is to continued growth and dynamic progress in 2022! #CrownAct #BlackHair [alt text: Jasmine wearing different hairstyles including locs, twists, twist outs, frohawk, afro, and straight hair. photos are arranged in monthly increments with a different hairstyle for each month.]

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Peta Carcone, MBA SAFe POPM

Product Owner and Product Manager certified | Fintech | Health-tech | ServiceNow| Salesforce |SaaS

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So beautiful. Thanks for helping me push this initiative.

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Aaron Watsky

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I swear! You haven't changed since I first met you in college!

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Kristina Johnson (Sebastian)

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This is awesome!

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Khadija Cole, MSM

Project Administrator I Director I Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master I Certified Project Manager

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Natasha Cox

Project Manager and Registered Architect at Dynamik Design

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So cool! I love how many diverse looks and textures you can achieve 🙌

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Paula McFadin, MBA

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LOVE THIS!!

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    I made it to #inbound2023 - so much fun, lots of learning and I, for once, am on the receiving end of demos for next week! Imagine that!

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