Unpacking the WHY Behind ED&I - a podcast by Tara Kemes, Sarah Markwick and Sandy Gunn

In this episode, we chat with our colleague and friend, Alex Goodman. Alex is an HR pro and works in the animation industry. She joins DBAJAW as a guest to have a conversation about equity, diversity and inclusion.

With ongoing and systemic anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, including the recent murder of George Floyd, the shooting of Jacob Blake, the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor,  the police-involved death of Regis Porchinski-Porquet, the death of Joyce Equachan and, tragically, the killing of many, many more Black and Indigenous people in both the US and Canada, we are seeing a lot of workplaces react. While some organizations were already taking actions to improve equity, diversity and inclusion, we discuss how a lot MORE interest and energy are being put into this now.

Key Takeaways:

• ED&I initiatives don’t live in a vacuum! We need to move beyond initiatives to making equity in the workplace the new systemic. 
• Avoid getting caught up in check-boxes. Commitment to ED&I is more than feeling good about diversity hires.
• When we strive to do better with ED&I, we are going to make mistakes. Don’t let that stop us from trying.

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