This isolation phenomenon in newsrooms is exactly what Professor Scott Page from the University of Michigan studies. In an interview for NPR’s Code Switch, he explained, “It’s taxing if you are the lone dissenting voice in the room, particularly when you are forced to represent entire communities against the opinions of people who outrank you.” In other words, being the only – or one of the few – people of color in the newsroom often results in tokenism. These experiences and feelings are exactly what members of the Rebirth Project at UMass Amherst are trying to prevent.