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That's a wrap on Allyship to Impact, part of PowerToFly's Diversity Reboot virtual summit series! Whether you were able to join us live and engage with our amazing lineup of leaders in antiracism and inclusion education or you will be watching the recordings of our conversations at a later date, we sincerely thank you for your interest in this vital topic. We hope that you were able to walk away feeling empowered with new information, new connections, and new opportunities. Only together can we take the actionable steps towards creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace.
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What We're Reading Right Now
We're Better Than This
by Elijah Cummings, Forward by Nancy Pelosi, Afterward by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
A message from Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings:
My late husband Congressman Elijah E. Cummings was a profoundly decent man whom I deeply admired and loved with all my heart. His tragic death from thymic cancer at the age of 68 was a heart-wrenching loss for his family, constituents, colleagues, and the nation. A son of Baltimore who rose to become an esteemed lawyer, Maryland state legislator, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, at the time of his death Elijah chaired the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, a primary investigative body of the Congress. It is with immense pride and profound gratitude that I announce the September 22nd publication of his book, We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy, written in collaboration with Baltimore writer James Dale and published by HarperCollins. Elijah and Jim worked on this book throughout the last year of his life which considering the intensity of his work and his health challenges, is a testament to his strength of will and an example of values-based leadership at its finest. Featuring life lessons that fueled Elijah's pain, passion, and purpose, the book also details his fight to root out corruption in government and contains his dire warning about the threat that Donald J. Trump represents to the American people and U.S. democracy. With a foreword written by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an afterword written by me, this must-read book provides a roadmap to help you understand the significance of the man, the gravity of the moment, and what we must all do to save our families, communities, and the country. Last but certainly not least, I am excited and honored to announce that world-renowned actor Laurence Fishburne provides a masterful interpretation of Elijah's voice in the audio version of the book.
Drop The Ball
by Tiffany Dufu
Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu, a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement, struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that to have it all, they must do it all, Tiffany began to feel that achieving her career and personal goals was an impossibility. Eventually, she discovered the solution: letting go. In Drop the Ball, Tiffany recounts how she learned to reevaluate expectations, shrink her to-do list, and meaningfully engage the assistance of others—freeing the space she needed to flourish at work and to develop deeper, more meaningful relationships at home.
Your Turn: How To Be An Adult
by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Having tackled a far-reaching parenting crisis with her New York Times bestselling How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims is back with an equally powerful and persuasive book for the adult children of those hovering parents--and for everyone who struggles to be a grown-up in these challenging times. What does it mean to be a "grownup"? And how do we define success? For generations, the milestones were easy to pinpoint: college graduation, if possible, a steady nine-to-five, home ownership; marriage; and children not long after. For those entering adulthood today, expectations and hopes are sometimes as rigid and high-pressure as they ever were, but the realities and the options have changed. Many choose to pursue careers and passions that diverge from desk jobs, joining the escalating gig economy; many live at home with family to save money in the face of staggering student debt; and others begin struggling with how or whether raise their own children in a time of steep economic inequality and climate change. When it comes to essential, basic skills such as dating and building friendships, or learning to channel one's energy into being an informed and responsible citizen, well, it's harder than ever to focus and figure things out. Into this swirl of anxiety and inexperience steps Julie Lythcott-Haims. A former Stanford dean of freshman and undergraduate adviser and author of the perennial bestseller How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims has encountered hundreds of twentysomethings who feel they're just playing the part of "adult," while struggling in silence with stress and general unease. In How to Be an Adult, she offers inspiration and practical strategies for how to face pervasive insecurities--from the terror of being in charge or of meeting new people to quandaries about how to achieve financial independence, cope with traumas, or discover what gives us joy.
Trampled By Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
by Maëlle Gavet
Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It explores how technology has progressed humanity's most noble pursuits, while also grappling with the origins of the industry's destructive empathy deficit and the practical measures Big Tech can take to self-regulate and make it right again. Author Maëlle Gavet examines the tendency for many of Big Tech's stars to stray from their user-first ideals and make products that actually profoundly damage their customers and ultimately society.
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood and History
by Camille T. Dungy
An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history. As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then toddler, intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child, but as black women. With a poet's eye, she celebrates her daughter's acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers' and investors' dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods. With exceptional candor and grace, Dungy explores our inner and outer worlds―the intimate and vulnerable experiences of raising a child, living with illness, conversing with strangers, and counting on others' goodwill. Across the nation, she finds fear and trauma, and also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, Guidebook to Relative Strangers is an essential guide for a troubled land.
Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
Super Princess Saves The Night
by Shauna Gordon-McKeon & Elena Popova
When magic runs wild on Darling Street and Ajax the Dog gets scared, he barks out "woof, woof!" (that's dog for "help, help!") and Super Princess comes to the rescue. She shows Ajax that with a little love and empathy, there's nothing to be scared of. One day, Mom and Dad ask Sam if they can meet Super Princess. Their love and empathy show Sam that there's nothing to be scared of. She learns that Super Princess can save the day as well as the night! Super Princess Saves the Night is a children's book about embracing difference and loving people for who they are. It features a trans/gender non-conforming character, her supportive parents, her big silly dog, and a variety of magical household items. All proceeds from this book are being donated to the Trans Women of Color Collective.
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Awaken
We empower leaders and teams to lead inclusively and authentically, through modern, interactive, and action-oriented workshops.
Taina M. Brown
Using my 10+years of experience in coaching and my knowledge and expertise as an intersectional feminist and scholar, I utilize a holistic approach that considers your community experiences while also drawing attention to the systems and institutions that may hinder personal growth and development.
BQN Consulting
A consulting practice looking for social transformation within religious and faith spaces in support of justice, equity and affirmation for all. Through facilitation, training, and coaching my practice works short and long term with faith and religious institutions to explore and implement changes towards reaching the principles stated above.
The Cru
The Cru is a constellation of women committed to helping each other thrive. We match circles of ten women based on their personality, values, demographics and life goals. Crus coach one another to accelerate their personal and professional growth. You receive structure, exclusive content and a virtual guide to support your Cru with your annual membership.
D. Morgan & Partners
We are the intersection between business and the political system ensuring that government does not impede your success.
Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy's debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
Ellevate Network
Ellevate works with companies committed to diversity and inclusion, providing an effective framework for companies to be a leader in diversity, attract top talent, and retain high performers through our customized programming, access to career resources, and top notch events.
Floreo
Floreo is leveraging the power of Virtual Reality to develop a supplementary method of teaching social and communication skills for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our library of lessons is fun and engaging for the learner, while also providing a supervising adult the opportunity to monitor and track the learner's progress. Floreo is currently being used by schools, therapy practices, and parents. Floreo's lessons are science-based; we are currently running several research studies including a study in collaboration with the Center for Autism Research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and National Institutes of Health.
Maelle Gavet
Maëlle Gavet has been a leading technology executive and entrepreneur for over 15 years. One of the tech industry's brightest stars, Maëlle Gavet has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of Fortune's 40 Under 40, one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and was fifth among Time magazine's List of the Top 25 'Female Techpreneurs'. After six years as a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group she went on to become CEO of OZON.ru, Russia's largest e-commerce site, and executive VP of operations of the Priceline Group, the largest online and travel agency in the world which includes brands like OpenTable, Kayak, and Booking.com.
Jackie Gordon For Congress
Jackie Gordon is a combat veteran, an educator, a public servant, and a community leader. Jackie was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and grew up in Queens, NY. While in college and teaching in local schools, she enlisted in the United States Army Reserve. Over her 29-year career in the Armed Forces, Jackie served our country overseas as a platoon leader in Germany during Operation Desert Storm, as an operations officer at Guantanamo Bay during the Global War on Terror, as a battle captain in Baghdad during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and as Commander of the 310th Military Police Battalion in Afghanistan in 2012. She retired from the Army Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2014. Gordon spent three decades working in New York public schools, and has earned degrees in education from Hunter College and Queens College. As a former guidance counselor at Wilson Technological Center in Farmingdale, Jackie has mentored and advised Long Island high schoolers, guiding them into productive lives, into college, and into the workforce. From 2007 to 2020, she served on the Babylon Town Council, where she worked to direct resources to veterans and military families as Chair of the Veterans Advisory Council, pushed for the revitalization of Wyandanch Village, which has breathed new life into the community, and helped raise nearly $1 million for the Wounded Warriors Project through the annual Soldier Ride in Babylon. Jackie lives in Copiague with her son Augustus. Her daughter, Kerrianne, is a Captain in the U.S. Air Force.
Hook & Fasten (Deesha Dyer)
Hook & Fasten is a social impact consulting firm that builds transformational partnerships between communities and corporations around the globe. We craft custom programs, initiatives and campaigns that help clients be authentic, intentional, mindful and results-oriented in their impact and giving.
In Your Own Voices, Inc.
Our mission is to work for and ensure the physical, mental, spiritual, political, cultural and economic survival and growth of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people of color communities.
Karat
Karat is on a mission to engineer a better technical interview, and assess the world's talent. We are the first dedicated marketplace for technical interviewers. Karat's network of seasoned engineers conduct the first rounds of technical interviews for elite engineering companies. Our robust platform removes bias from the hiring process and saves teams thousands of valuable hours while allowing them to focus on top performing candidates. Karat's unique approach recognizes that people are central to the hiring process and that they can be supercharged by leveraging machine learning and our rich database of the world's interviews.
Leadership for Educational Equity
Leadership for Educational Equity is a nonprofit leadership development organization inspiring & supporting a network of civic leaders to end the injustice of educational inequity.
LEVICK
LEVICK is one of the world's leading independent strategic communications, public affairs, and business advisory consulting firms.
Living Cities
Living Cities harnesses the collective power of philanthropy, financial institutions and local governments to close racial income and wealth gaps in American cities.
Julie Lytcott-Haims
Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject was one of the top talks of 2016, and in 2020 she became a regular contributor with CBS This Morning on parenting.
Moon Honey Media (Candace Ramirez)
Content & Branding for Creative Boss Babes.
New York Amsterdam News
The oldest Black newspaper in the country that offers the "New Black View" within local, national and international news for the Black community.
Calista Phair
Calista Phair, LLC is a business that provides talent recruitment implementation plans, diversity, equity and inclusion, business coaching, change management strategies, business sales generation strategies, and workforce training. These services are in place to ultimately provide businesses with the opportunity to recruit talent and more so provide others with the tools to advance their career, grow a business, and maximize their full potential.
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Dr. Tana M. Session
Dr. Tana M. Session is an award-winning International Speaker, Executive-level Performance Coach, Best-selling Author, recognized Inclusion, Diversity & Multigenerational Thought Leader and Media Contributor. She has been recognized by Huffington Post as a "Top Female Expert to Follow;" by Forbes as a "Top Diversity & Inclusion Business Leader;" and by Fond.co as a "Top 10 Company Culture Consultant."
Mira Stern
I'm Mira-- a queer white Jewish woman and third-generation San Franciscan. I have dedicated my life to building strong and diverse communities, developing white antiracist consciousness and courage, and creating opportunities for societal transformation. I co-create solutions with my clients; we turn some of the biggest issues into opportunities for change and growth.
Style House
Janna Meyrowitz Turner founded Style House in 2006 as a boutique antithesis to high-stress public relations offices that didn't breed creativity, loyalty or progress. For over a decade Style House has been partnering with female-forward startups and corporations that turn our entrepreneurial business brains into overdrive to move society forward.
Trans Women of Color Collective
Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC) was created to cultivate economic opportunities and affirming spaces for trans people of color and our families, to foster kinship, build community engage in healing and restorative justice through arts, culture, media, advocacy and activism.
Trifecta Media Group (Quiana Agbai)
Trifecta Media Group provides small businesses with the integrated marketing support they need to be their best. We believe in personalized service that hones in on the needs and vision of our clients.
viBe Theater Experience
viBe Theater Experience (viBe) provides girls, young women, and nonbinary youth of color (aged 13-25) in New York City with free, high quality artistic, leadership and academic opportunities. viBe works to empower its participants to write and perform original theater, video and music about the real-life issues they face daily. viBe's performing arts and training programs provide the platform for participants to amplify their voices and "speak truth to power", by creating an artistic response to the world around them.
The Vixen
The Vixen is a multi-talented performer dedicated to making the world a better place. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, her art has always been intertwined with social justice and activism. An accomplished drag queen, songwriter, fashion designer and dancer, she credits her creative family for her love of the arts. As a student at Columbia College in Chicago, Vixen learned the makeup skills it took to create her growing drag persona. After turning 21, her athletic performance style quickly gained her attention in the Chicago drag scene. Through hard work and dedication The Vixen has become an influential member of Chicago's gay community - interviewed by many publications for her unique style and outspoken viewpoint. As a rapper, her bold lyrics and intricate delivery has earned her national attention for her show-stopping collaborations. Her proudest achievement is creating BlackGirlMagic, a drag concert, where queens of color can celebrate their unique experiences through storytelling and performance.
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How These Companies Are Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
As we reflect on recent events and how they fit into a much larger history of discrimination, we're also taking time to celebrate and acknowledge the many achievements of the AAPI community.
We asked several of our partner companies what they're doing to honor AAPI Heritage Month at work, and we were inspired by the range of responses, covering everything from campaigns to #StopAsianHate to educational events on AAPI history.
Here's what they're doing, in their own words:
Empowering authenticity - LogMeIn
"Our theme this year is AIM to Be Real. We are embracing our new company values and celebrating those who bring their authentic selves to work, who help create space to celebrate diversity of thought, and who give back to the API community. Our Asian ERG, Asians in Motion (AIM), is hosting several events: a discussion about bringing your authentic self to work with Jerry Won (Dear Asian Americans podcast); a refugee-led virtual cooking class; ERG Movie Club discussions featuring Bollywood films, and a virtual volunteer event where we will offer career development mentoring for young women across Asia."
Learn more about LogMeIn here.
Educating on current events — Raytheon Technologies
"Raytheon Technologies is honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with an enterprise-wide global town hall event – Real Talk: Building CommUNITY Together. Organized by the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) employee resource groups across the company, employees will share their personal experiences and discuss ways to support Asian American Pacific Islander communities. The event will also feature prominent leading advocates from renowned civil rights organizations to provide insight into the national context surrounding recent events. We will also feature AAPI employees internally and on our social media channels."
Learn more about Raytheon Technologies here.
Encouraging awareness, growth, and learning — Moody's
"Moody's is encouraging awareness, growth, and learning during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the following activities, led by our Multicultural Business Resource Group and DE&I team:
- Weekly newsletters featuring AAPI employee profiles and cultural resources
- Video screening and small-group discussions supporting #StopAsianHate
- Cultural panel discussion featuring employee stories
- Professional development activities
- External speakers speaking about Asian leadership"
Supporting professional development — Freddie Mac
"Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Freddie Mac – Together, We Are Stronger
Freddie Mac supports the professional development of Asian and Pacific Islander employees while promoting an increased awareness of the value they bring to the organization and our local communities. Our InspirASIAN Business Resource Group is hosting various activities throughout the month such as:
- Personal development session on empowerment led by a coach from our Employee Assistance Program.
- "Stop Asian Hate" lunch and learn geared toward discussing the hurdles facing the AAPI community.
- Fireside chat about racial injustice with leaders from our InspirASIAN and ARISE (employees of the African diaspora) BRGs."
Fostering inclusion, learning, and belonging – Nestlé USA
"At Nestlé USA, the Pan Asian Network (PAN), one of our many employee resource groups that support our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives, will host a variety of events to honor and acknowledge Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. These activities will foster greater inclusion, enhanced learning, and belonging for the AAPI community. PAN will highlight women's development in Asian cultures, Asian leadership and what their culture means to them, culinary innovation of Asian cuisine, intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and Pan Asian community, as well as an enhanced learning watch party of the PBS movie 'Asian American.'"
Learn more about Nestlé USA here.
Promoting cultural literacy – Relativity
The Community Resource Group at Relativity
"For Relativity, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is an opportune time to not only celebrate the rich AAPI cultures represented within our company, but to also foster awareness and allyship amidst the current rise of AAPI hate. RelAsians, our internal community resource group, has organized a few activities for May: a book club focused on AAPI heritage—because we feel it's never too early to gain cultural literacy, a weekly spotlight on AAPI Relativians, and a virtual event that takes attendees on a tour through an Asian grocery store, introducing native vegetables and staple ingredients for traditional home-cooked Asian recipes."
- Contribution from Neha Pant, Sr. Performance Engineer & Angie Ocasek, Sr. Specialist, Partner Enablement – Co-Chairs of the RelAsians Community Resource Group at Relativity
Learn more about Relativity here.
Creating transformative experiences – Facebook
"At Facebook, our APIs employee resource group's mission is to create transformative experiences for all APIs at Facebook, Inc through key cultural awareness and engagement highlighting the API community. To kick off APIHM, we will host a series of events and conversations for the community and its allies designed to support the API community around the theme, The SUM of Us, including:
- Letting Others In: a mindful discussion series that privileges intersectional voices, storytelling, feedback, and vulnerability as tools for building empathy and inclusion amongst organizations.
- Racial Healing Learning Session: specific to the API Experience focused on naming of experiences and emotional responses, understanding the body's responses to racial trauma, what the audience can do in the moment for self-care, and long-term strategies to overcome the effect of the traumatic experience.
- Bystander Training/self Defense Workshop"
Learn more about Facebook here.
Extensive and exciting programming — 2U
"At 2U, Inc. we'll be honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with extensive and exciting programming coordinated by our employee-led Asian Pacific Islander Network (APIN). In a year marred by exceptional challenges APIN has centered activities around the ameliorating themes of joy, culture and wellness. Be it delighting in a ukulele mini concert, reading an interview highlighting an API coworker, winding down after too much screen time with a somatic healing session or engaging in a panel discussion with API tattoo artists, we have a packed month ahead with opportunities to support oneself and the API culture! Follow along @Lifeat2U on Instagram for more!"
Learn more about 2U here.
Amplifying voices and educating others – Smartsheet
"During APAHM, the API at Smartsheet community will be hosting several events and activities to educate others, amplify AAPI voices, and celebrate the AAPI community! We plan to kick off the month with a documentary viewing and discussion to learn about AAPI history, and hope to share personal stories from our AAPI employees throughout the month. We'll end with an opportunity for the community to celebrate itself by gathering together for fun and games, while eating food from local Asian-owned restaurants."
Learn more about Smartsheet here.
Rising together in sports and culture – NBA
"For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, APEX is proud to present a multitude of celebratory activities, headlined by an NBA Family Virtual Town Hall and, with the NFL and MLB, an Asians in Sports & Culture Symposium themed "Together We Rise" featuring prominent Asian personalities from the sports world. We are also launching a PSA with an NBA star, honoring Eid-al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, offering a bystander intervention training led by AAJC, and – because the celebration wouldn't be complete without food – hosting a sushi making class for our members."
Learn more about the NBA here.
Creating courageous conversations – Commvault
"This May, we are celebrating all our Asian/Pacific Islander employees, not just Asian Americans. We will spend the month learning about and celebrating the diverse cultures of Asia through weekly events and activities led by our Multi-Culture ERG. Vaulters and external guests will teach us the history of practices such as yoga, origami, and Asian cuisines. We will also discuss topics like the rise of hate crimes against Asian people and the recent spike in COVID-19 in India. These activities and courageous conversations will engage our workforce and create support for our Asian and Pacific Islander communities around the world."
Learn more about Commvault here.
Honoring history through virtual events – Collins Aerospace
"Collins Aerospace supports our AAPI colleagues not only in May, but all year. Our parent company Raytheon Technologies hosted a virtual Town Hall last month to provide a safe space for open dialogue about recent events targeting Asian Americans in the U.S. In addition to this entity-wide event, our Asia Pacific ERG at Collins is hosting events that educate and honor the importance of Asian Pacific American history such as virtual Lunch & Tours spotlighting South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, and India; and Thoughts & Support sessions. Site-specific events include virtual cooking class, and viewing PBS docuseries Asian Americans."
Learn more about Collins Aerospace here.
Highlighting new perspectives – MongoDB
"MongoDB will share daily historical facts, highlights of Asian American pioneers, and perspectives from our AAPI employees in a dedicated Slack channel. We will also be providing access to an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month webinar, organizing a trivia night, and holding Processing Together sessions for our internal AAPI community due to recent hate crimes happening across the globe. These sessions are a safe space for employees to share their stories and sentiments of what it is like as an Asian American in America today. (Read MongoDB employee Monica Lu's story about being an Asian American woman in tech here.)"
Learn more about MongoDB here.
Spotlighting diverse communities – Bumble
"At Bumble, moments like heritage month celebrations are often our anchor to ensure we are spotlighting diverse communities. In alignment with AAPI Heritage Month in May, Bumble is rolling out a series of thoughtful programming to encourage internal education and around how to support the Stop Asian Hate movement and better serve the Asian community globally. The lineup of initiatives include:
- BuzzWord DEI Discussion Series with featured guest speakers: This conversation will focus on the Asian community within the context of larger cultural issues such as dating app experiences, fetishization, masculinity, and representation.
- Bumble will be inviting employees to join a virtual Vietnamese coffee-making class. Created in partnership with Phin Bar, an urban brew-bar that offers Vietnamese-style steeped coffee combined with house-made ingredients, Bumble hopes to facilitate a deeper cultural learning and community bonding experience for the team.
- Bumble will also be activating channels across social media and our product to educate our community about bystander intervention and raise awareness around the importance of supporting the Stop Asian Hate movement."
Engaging in daring conversations – Procore
"In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in May, Procore recently organized an internal event to recognize and support the AAPI community. The event was hosted as part of our ongoing internal speaker series, 'Daring Conversations & Allyship,' to create space for an open dialogue around diversity, inclusion, and belonging. All employees were invited to tune in as employees from our AAPI communities shared their unique experiences, addressed anti-Asian hate, and discussed actionable ways to support our AAPI community."
Learn more about Procore here.
Taking action to foster change – SeatGeek
"This month the POC ERG will be meeting and hosting different activities to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This includes creating a safe space to discuss current events, and what actions our communities can take to foster change, sending out a newsletter which will highlight the Asian community in every aspect, and lastly, we will be hosting a guest speaker.
We hope with these planned activities and meetings, we can highlight, and uplift the Asian/Pacific American community, as well as bring awareness to the horrible ongoing attacks they are facing."
Learn more about SeatGeek here.
Uplifting and inspiring the community – Okta
"Okta's People of Color (POC@Okta) ERG is planning to commemorate AAPI Month with a series of fireside chats and iconographical facts posted internally in the #poc and #all diversity Slack channels! These chats will feature Dion Lim of ABC7 News and Comedian/Actor, Ronny Chieng. We will conclude the series with a partnership with Pride@Okta featuring supermodel, TED speaker, and transgender advocate Geena Rocero. The goal of this series is to educate, uplift, support, and inspire! The Okta leadership supports its AAPI employees, customers, and community."
Learn more about Okta here.
Empowering cultural diversity and leadership – Quip
"Salesforce will be celebrating through multiple virtual events, such as a leadership panel on the power of cultural diversity, a tea tasting, a tai chi class, a haka workshop, and more! Members of the Quip team have also compiled an extensive list of resources to support AAPI communities, including ways to donate, take action, and learn more."
Learn more about Quip here.
Focusing on lived experiences – Mindbody
"The Mindbody United ERG focuses on a different heritage or history each month, with May devoted to Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This ERG seeks to provide a platform to both celebrate and learn together. This will manifest in two ways: As a newsletter and a Zoom meeting. The newsletter will feature contributions directly from team members, while the meeting will feature Assembly member Evan Low as our speaker. It is our goal to focus on the lived experiences of the AAPI community, address discrimination, and how to chase after the part of the world we can make better."
Learn more about Mindbody here.
Promoting harmony and unity – T. Rowe Price
"T. Rowe Price is aware and appalled at the recent spike in hate crimes against the Asian community. In response, the firm will center Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month efforts around harmony and unity, in alignment with the Hawaiian value, Lōkahi – Forward as One. To share best practices, successes and areas of opportunities, T. Rowe Price will co-host a Leadership Panel on Asian Leadership Challenges with Baltimore Asian Connect, a consortium of Asian business resource group leaders at local corporations. The firm will also host a book club and restorative listening circles for Asian American associates and their allies."
Learn more about T. Rowe Price here.
Celebrating Asians globally
"May is Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month. Although traditionally a US celebration, at Autodesk we are celebrating Asians globally. The Autodesk Asian Network is hosting Innovative Leaders, including Lori Mukoyama and Jonathan Zee. Lori Mukoyama is redefining experience-driven design globally at Gensler. Jonathan Zee has an extensive portfolio of buildings that are helping to shape cities around the world at Goettsch Partners. Lori and her husband Jonathan combine design, architecture and engineering in their work while simultaneously manage a family together during this pandemic. This event is hosted by AAN, as part of a monthlong series of APA Heritage Month events."
Learn more about AutoDesk here.
