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September 12th, 2024

8:00-4:30 PM

Since 2020, we’ve been sharing stories, advice and resources with young professionals on making their workplaces and communities more welcoming and inclusive through our diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative, Takeover Tuesday: Band Together CLE.

Now, we’re thrilled to expand this initiative with our Inaugural Diversity Equity and Inclusion Conference taking place in October 2023. We will explore the importance of DE&I, deliver insights for supporting DE&I priorities and offer tools to establish a truly aware and inclusive work environment.

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our
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Justin Bibb, Mayor, City of Cleveland
Gulnar Feerasta, Director of Programs, LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland
Winnie Li, VP of Partnerships, MotivAsians for Cleveland
LaRese Purnell, Founder, The Real Black Friday
Estefany Rodrigues Perez, Programs Manager, Center for Inclusion Baldwin Wallace University

“WHAT AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TOGETHER WITH OTHER LIKE-MINDED YOUNG PROFESSIONALS TO DIG EVEN FURTHER INTO THE IMPORTANCE OF DEIB IN THE WORKPLACE. THANK YOU ENGAGE! CLEVELAND – I LOOK FORWARD TO COMING BACK NEXT YEAR!”

 

– 2023 DE&I Conference Attendee

ep. 26 WITH WINNIE LI

In this episode, Winnie talks about the recent rise in violence against the AAPI community, local organizations to get involved with, discovering Asian cultures in Cleveland, favorite local Asian restaurants, podcast recommendations, career advice for Asian-American professionals and her hope for the future (6:52)

This episode originally aired on 4/6/2021.

Ep. 28 with Gulnar Feerasta

In this episode, Gulnar talks about Metro Healtn’s Pride Clinic, how to support LGBTQ colleagues, how to start an employee resource group (ERG) and looking at your organization’s policies & insurance policies

To learn more about the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland, visit lgbtcleveland.org.

This episode originally aired on 6/1/2021..

EP. 24 WITH LAREESE PURNELL

In this episode, LaRese talks about how white young professionals can support black-owned businesses, his favorite local black-owned businesses, How to take action and get involved in the community and what comes after naming racism a public health crisis in Cleveland

This episode originally aired on 2/2/2021.

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