Play Your Card: The Podcast

A Fractional Chief Diversity Officer’s weekly rapid-fire musings on equity in the workplace. New episodes are published every week.

About the Podcast

It's your turn to speak up about the games people play in the workplace

Play Your Card started as an interactive card game with pop-up dialogues on a variety of topics and categories. Amberly created the game to teach her college students how to engage in intergroup dialogues about their most salient identities. The game inspired the show concept for Play Your Card: The Podcast. Here’s what you can look forward to:

Each episode, Amberly shuffles the deck to determine the category she'll discuss on the show that day. Just like in the game, each color of the card represents a different category. Red is for Racial Equity, Blue is for Gender Equity, Green is for Generational Diversity, and Yellow is for Disability Advocacy.
Are you looking for resources to add to your DEI Toolkit? Find Amberly's recommendations when she Stacks the Deck for you with the stuff she loves!
Struggling with navigating the workplace? Seeking out best practices and beyond for your team? When a Reverse card is played, that means it's time for Amberly to spotlight experts and top voices who are game changers in the DEI space and championing equity in the workplace.

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The Latest Episodes

Ep 11 | DEI Degree Programs: Where is it safe to learn DEI?

Ep 10 | DEI Needs More Hustle

Ep 09 | Remembering George Floyd, 3 Years Later

Should You Layoff Your DEI Officer. An alternative is hiring a Fractional Chief Diversity Officer

Ep 08 | Should You Layoff Your DEI Officer?

Ep 07 | What is a Fractional Chief Diversity Officer?

Ep 06 | Saying Goodbye to My 9-5

About the podcast host

Shuffle the deck, meet the Queen of the Pack

Amberly R. Carter, M.Ed, CDE (pronouns: she/her) is a Certified Diversity Executive. She has more than 15 successful years in the DEI and Social Justice space. Highlights about her career and personal story as a social justice educator was published in the Times Union: Women @ Work Magazine where Amberly was featured as a Capital Region expert in diversity and inclusion.

From birth, her family’s ties to America’s greatest stain on justice placed her at the heart of the Movement for Black lives. Amberly is a cousin of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of whistling at a White woman. His murders were acquitted and his death is said to have sparked the Civil Rights Movement.