The power of the hardhat | Tiffani Robinson | TEDxThird Ward

Please welcome Tiffany Robinson. It was my first day on the job site. All I could hear is men speaking in Spanish across the project.I'm the only woman. I walk in, I hear power tools, hammers, saw chains, everything. I I just hear nothing but noise.And I stand there and the only thing that I can reflect on is what keeps this system going and what deters it. What keeps a project on track. How do we retain the people.Because you see, as a black woman walking into a construction site, as an HVAC technician, I ...