Content Strategy Interviews

Michael Reid Michael Reid is a consultant who helps organizations with their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. A linguist by training, he is extremely attuned to the role of language in his work, which led to his explorations of the privilege given to English-language speakers in our modern, hyper-connected world. His discoveries can help content professionals of all kinds identify and address the dynamics and biases that arise from the pivotal role that the English language plays in modern digital business. We talked about: his background in linguistics, interpreting, higher education, and the nonprofit world and how they led to his current work in DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) the concept of a "pivot language" - a language that serves as an intermediary between two other languages how business and social dynamics can turn a pivot language like English into a mechanism of privilege how English language privilege can affect the quality of localization how the dominance of Engl