Spotlights
Celebrating Pride Month: Akash Abraham
Amergis Healthcare Staffing is proud to celebrate Pride Month! Through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we recognize and support members of the LGBTQIA+ community – not just during June, but all year long. Our Amergis Staffing’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) board strives to create an environment where everyone feels welcomed and respected.
In honor of Pride Month, Amergis Staffing is spotlighting Akash Abraham, who has been working at headquarters in Columbia, Maryland as a Business Process Analyst with our Recruitment Centers of Excellence.
What Pride Means to Akash
Akash is a New Yorker through and through, Akash came to Amergis and immediately connected with everyone around him. Akash described that when he started working at headquarters the first thing he noticed was the Pride Flags from 2022’s Amergis Pride Celebration. Through all the years Akash has spent in corporate jobs, he has never had a place so openly welcoming. He also added that Amergis is the first job he didn’t have to come out to.
Although Akash has been out since he was 24, he had actually known he was homosexual since he was 13. Born in Brunei and raised in Queens, NY, Akash grew up in a religious family that hindered him from coming out as soon as he knew, because he struggled to accept himself due to the influence of his upbringing.
Despite this, Akash has been openly celebrating Pride since 1999. “Pride means I can be my authentic self every single day, unapologetically. We get to show up, show out, and celebrate how far we’ve come,” Akash describes.
Although he had already been a part of Pride events before, Akash was driving down to the Millennium March in DC in April 2000 and started to get the feeling that this was a little bit more than just the party he was expecting it to be. To see people, of so many ages from all across the country, coming together to celebrate who they are and to stand for equality and LGBTQ+ rights was very impactful and an important way to put this movement into perspective – LGBTQ+ rights are human rights.
Please join Amergis Staffing in celebrating Akash and everyone in the LGBTQ+ community!
Learn More About Amergis Healthcare Staffing’s Company Culture
At Amergis, we are committed to creating safe spaces that allow every voice to be heard by following our core values:
- We promote diversity and inclusion.
- We win with integrity and trust.
- We prioritize quality.
- We invest in development.
- We champion innovation.
- We drive for results.
We also aim to help shape our culture through improvement and innovation, including gaining information through feedback loops, annual surveys, data analysis and creative program development. Find out more about how Amergis ensures that all team members feel empowered and uplifted by reaching out to us online.
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