Check your résumé and identity labels on your alumni websites
How you represent yourself is your choice
When taking a social media inventory, people often remember LinkedIn and job-search websites but forget their alumni websites.
Long ago, in a university networking tool, you may have entered your résumé or attached yourself to identity-based affinity groups.
Your form of survival, resistance, and thriving may involve highlighting, downplaying, or entirely hiding certain personal details. Information is power. It's your narrative. Choose it and live it.
For example, I'm on BrownConnect+. Yesterday, they emailed to alert me that my 🏳️🌈 Brown Alumni Pride Association (BAPA) membership will migrate over from their old system to their new system. They let me know that I can stay in the Pride group or remove myself from it, and if I stay in it, a tool in "My Settings → Privacy" will allow me to choose whether the Pride label is visible on my profile.
Your high school or university will have its own way of doing things. These systems change all the time. See if you have an active alumni account, review what you said about your job history and your identity, and update it. Keep in mind the person you need to be in 2025.
