Do or DEI. There is no try. With Sharon Nyangweso & Kai Scott

In 2020, there was a cultural reckoning in the US and Canada around the prevalence of systemic racism. Since then, there’s been a wave of companies, organizations, and brands declaring their belief in the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

But saying you believe in DEI isn’t enough.

In this episode of Ampersand, we unpack this with Sharon Nyangweso (CEO of QuakeLab, an end-to-end inclusion agency) and Kai Scott (President and Co-Founder of TransFocus Consulting, which supports organizations with gender diversity and inclusion). We get into the details of what communicators and designers need to know to employ a DEI lens and serve equity deserving groups, both internally within our workplaces, as well as in the work that we do.

This episode is dedicated to the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity.

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This podcast is a project of Emdash, the small agency focused on big impact helping progressives be heard.