You can be a mentor or a sponsor! Yes, you! If you’re reading this column, then you probably are a human who cares about other humans in journalism. That’s really the first qualification of being a mentor. There is a difference between mentoring and sponsoring, so it’s important to understand what each entails.
Becoming a sponsor can be a bit trickier, since it requires you to have some form of privilege or social capital to spend on your candidate’s behalf. But this doesn’t mean you can only be a sponsor from the C-Suite.
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