I share your experience here. I’m a minority, and arguably now considered an industry expert as well in my domain (graphics). The vast majority of time I’m the

I share your experience here. I’m a minority, and arguably now considered an industry expert as well in my domain (graphics). The vast majority of time I’m the only minority involved in several circles. I am trying to raise diversity in these groups, across age, ethnicity and gender. But it’s so difficult to do when few others also join in that effort. Not because they’re necessarily bigoted (though some are), but they don’t see it. The only effective means I’ve found is to actually highlight the disparity between diversity in the industry versus representation in the committees. Then suddenly people have an amazing colleague that they forgot to invite, or a rising star Junior dev who could be mentored into the role. Sometimes people just need to be reminded that the status quo isn’t above questioning and that they have their own implicit biases that they just never reflect on.