# @sjmagmedia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CbYpy7oPRUZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/143244-sjmagmedia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-03-22T00:00:06.000+00:00

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“Quite candidly, I needed to take time off. I’d done the work of being the person who rolls in to save the day. I needed to save my own day.”

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In March 2020, Michele Meyer-Shipp became the first woman and person of color to head human resources for Major League Baseball. As Chief People & Culture Officer, she led all of MLB’s programs and initiatives related to workplace diversity, equity and inclusion – supporting all 30 major league clubs and 120 minor league clubs.

To say this was uncharted territory would be an understatement.

“I was hired at the height of the pandemic, in the height of a very charged racial justice environment, to help lead the organization through all of that, and I did,” says Meyer-Shipp. “It was more exhausting than any job I’ve ever had because of the crisis we were going through from a social justice standpoint and then add a pandemic on top of it. It was straight up crisis management for an entire year.”

Meyer-Shipp saw MLB through the 2021 World Series and then announced she was leaving the organization. It was the first time in her life she left a job without having another one lined up. 

“I was looking back on pictures of every single place I’ve worked and realized some of the key moments that mattered most for me were working on programs supporting women, their advancement and recruiting,” she says.

When recruiters came to her with the chance to lead Dress for Success, a global nonprofit that provides employment resources for women, she knew this was what she’d been looking for.

“So I guess I am one of those people who took part in the Great Resignation as a result of the pandemic,” she says. “I found my moment of transformation. Life can’t just be about work, work, work.”

Michele’s story is just one of many SJ natives in desperate need of a reset after these last 2 pandemic-ridden years. Head to our Link in Bio to read more stories like hers!
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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SJ Magazine | @Justsaysj | https://gondola.cc/Justsaysj | Magazine |
| Elyse Notarianni | @ElyseNotarianni | https://gondola.cc/ElyseNotarianni | Social Media Manager |

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