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Why Accountability Matters, and It Starts with Us: A Love Letter to my Generation Z Colleagues

Published Feb 23, 2021 Updated Feb 28, 2021 Education and Training

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Why Accountability Matters, and It Starts with Us: A Love Letter to my Generation Z Colleagues

Gillian Mattern

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So far, the year of 2020 has thrown the world for a big loop.

Before COVID made its rabid attack on the US and before the Black Lives Matter movement grew into something that would soon be impenetrable, I was floating along my busy life, knee-deep in school work and struggling to set aside time for non-academic activities, such as reading and writing for my site.

I always felt some sort of pressure to be intellectually productive when I wasn’t working on school stuff, and I knew that simply attending college wasn’t going to provide me with every tool I needed to understand the ugliness of the world, even at the surface level.

Outside of my life as a college student, the world was beginning to burst at the seams, unraveling with every racial dispute, act of