Blogs
Perspectives on creating equitable and inclusive work environments
From Burnout to Balance: Embracing a Four-Day Work Week
Meso Search Associate extraordinaire Destinee G shares her experience going from a five day work week filled with stress to a four day work week filled with relaxation and a new outlook on work-life balance!
Reflections on Benefits: Centering Employees in your Handbook’s Offerings
Meso’s Project Associate Molly Salazar reflects on her experience with benefits at past employers, as well as her experience writing the Meso handbook.
Progressives have failed disabled people
Disabled people are always the object of the sentence, never the subject. We exist by our relationships: as people’s children, as burdens on our caregivers. Because of our perceived helplessness and voicelessness, decisions are made by others on our behalf.
Stop chasing Black women out of your progressive workplace
Microaggressions are anything but minuscule. Read our team member Temi’s reflections on how progressive organizations can do better by Black women.
Five things about resumes employers should leave behind
Here are a few things we need to change when we review resumes that will lead to more equitable opportunities for applicants.
Five things to include in your job description
Creating a new job description to woo the perfect candidate? Make sure these five essential elements are included.
“Darin” you to engage with Meso
Meso’s newest team member speaks to the experience and perspective he’ll bring to his work for the organization.
Reflecting on one year of equitable hiring
Meso’s founder and president reflects on some of the organization’s highlights in its first year.
Hiring as an organizational building tool
By thinking of hiring as an organization-wide priority and part of discussions about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we can open the door to a new way of thinking.
Championing workplace equity as a Black woman
In the next Meet Meso installment, Search Associate Temi Akande writes about how she advocates for talented minority candidates across the country to match them with progressive organizations at Meso Solutions.
Fair & open hiring for people of color: Why it's important to me
In our second installment of Meet Meso, Search Associate Lara Haddadin talks about how Meso Solutions makes space for marginalized individuals in the workforce.
Employment equity matters to me now more than ever
In our first Meet Meso installment, Lena Tom, president and founder of Meso Solutions, talks about how her lived experience shaped the organization’s mission.
How to enter the progressive space
So you want to enter the progressive political and advocacy space? Welcome! Trust me, we need you. If you’re getting in for the first time, we’ve laid out some tips to make the job application transition.
Welcome to Meso: A note from our founder
I was driven to establish Meso from a deep sense of commitment to people in movements — that it is the individuals who dedicate their lives to this work who create real, sustainable change in the world.