essay — Corporate
What ERGs Miss About Multiracial Employees
Belonging programs keep sorting people the forms already failed.
Marcus Devakar
June 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Belonging programs keep sorting people the forms already failed.
Most ERGs were built for people who can pick one affinity group without lying. Multiracial employees spend the mixer deciding which room they are allowed to stand in.
I have been asked, more than once, whether I would be more comfortable in the Asian ERG or the Black ERG. The question is polite. The architecture is not.
What would help is not a new acronym. It is permission to belong in more than one place, and programming that does not treat mixed people as a rounding error in the headcount.
Black and Thai, leading an ERG that keeps discovering it was built for people who fit one box.
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