Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at WorkA groundbreaking work challenging the false narrative that diversity equals a lack of qualifications by uncovering the impact of competency checking, a practice that unjustly scrutinizes Black people and other people of color, forcing them to repeatedly prove their worth, intelligence, and even their right to be in the workplace. The advancement of Black and other people of color in the workplace is under attack as there is a turn away from the