On election night, as it became clear that Donald Trump would be the country's next president, Dorcas Lind was feeling unsettled. With her children tucked in bed, Lind watched as the results trickled in and battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina turned red on the TV map. She thought about work.
Maybe, she thought, this would be good for business. Or, maybe, it was time for a career change.
Lind is a diversity consultant in the health care industry. It's her job to go into companies and help them create inclusive environments for their employees.
For consultants like Lind, the election's polarizing nature, which especially divided the nation on issues of race, is two-fold. While it means some of their business will almost certainly boom, a new set of challenges emerges for the professional peacemakers. Now, they say, they have to work harder to tamp down heightened feelings of us versus them; they have to hear the concerns of people usually thought of as privileged; and they have to navigate a language minefield where the wrong word can ignite conflict.
[For more of this story, written by Kat Chow, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/co...on-of-us-versus-them]
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