What will motivate #Hispanic/#Latino voters to participate in the #midterm #elections (or any election)? Well, to start with, #diversity. It’s about representation. It’s also about both parties reflecting the community that they’re serving. I need to have a connection to the person that I’m going to elect to represent me. So if the candidate is…
#Diversity is about who’s on the team, #Inclusion is about who gets to play. You can’t have one without the other. Corporate initiatives fail when they hire for diversity, but reward for conformity. Thank you to the #Arkansas Chapter of PRSA for hosting me today at their Diversity Luncheon in Little Rock.
Congrats to outgoing Asian American Journalists Association president Yvonne Leow and incoming president Michelle Ye Hee Lee!! GREAT representation of the Disney ABC Television Group at the Asian American Journalists Association National Conference in Houston. ESPN #HowardChen and #KTRK #MiyaShay emceed the event’s awards dinner where former ABC News cameraman Yasutsune “Tony” Hirashiki received the…
My advice to students of the prestigious T. Howard Foundation promoting workplace diversity and inclusion through internships: Embrace being the only one or one of a few in the room. Leverage being a bridge builder educating others about the importance of diverse communities in expanding corporate culture and with it business imperatives. Grateful to have…
Diversity & Inclusion is not a NICE to have. It is a NEED to have if your business is to remain competitive and thrive in an ever changing marketplace… …THANK YOU Rubenstein for inviting me to speak on better understanding multicultural communities by leveraging the wealth of experience around you 💪🏼.
Happy to have been among the guest speakers invited to the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Latinos on Fast Track (LOFT) Charla. The Charlas are local, self-organized discussions led by community leaders across the country focused on everything from technology, entrepreneurship, to wellness. Thanks to Hispanic Heritage Foundation for inviting me speak about the lack of #diversity…
Very grateful to have my friends and colleagues join me at Kingsborough Community College to discuss the importance of newsroom diversity. Journalists are entrusted with providing news and information which are in the public’s best interest. Their experience, background, gender and a host of other factors have a direct impact on how content is gathered,…
Incredibly proud of ESPN’s Sports & The Latino Experience program at the Excellence In Journalism Conference #EIJ17. The conversation highlighted Nacion ESPN on ESPN2 and the Beisbol Experience as examples of how teams from different platforms and networks collaborate in producing content that is inclusive and reflective of US Hispanic sports fans. A special thanks to…
Color Magazine hosted its first ever Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) Summit in Boston in July. “The CDO convenes Diversity and Inclusion Leaders for a dialogue around strategy, metrics, and innovation.” Dr. Sadie Burton-Goss on measuring D&I effectiveness: Metrics + Measurement + KPI = Success Other observations… Culturally competency is crucial in designing multicultural strategies which…
It was a pleasure to be a guest speaker at Yale University to lead a discussion about how unconscious bias effects our decision making every day. The mental shortcuts are more often than not useful, but there are some which prevents us from realizing the possibilities of diversity and inclusion in the the workplace. Diversity…
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