GDIB Newsletter: 14 March

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Issue: 14 March, 2018

Here's what you'll find in this month's newsletter:

Sid Reel, Change Agent

for UC Berkeley

The Forum on

Workplace Inclusion

Global

Inclusion Forum

Summer Institute for Intercultural

Communication Conference

Inclusion Allies

Coalition Webinar

USBLN

Virtual Career Invitational

FREE

Multicultural Calendar

Spanish & French

GDIB Translations

EPs on

the Move

STORIES OF D & I BEST PRACTICES

ACTIONS TO HELP ACHIEVE THIS GLOBAL D & I BENCHMARK

GDIB EXPERT PANELIST, SID REEL

CHANGE AGENT FOR UC BERKELEY

Sidalia Reel, the director of staff diversity initiatives with the Office of Equity and Inclusion, leads a workshop for the Multicultural Education Program. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)

GDIB Expert Panelist, Dr. Sidalia (Sid) G. Reel, joined the UC Berkeley Equity & Inclusion Division in 2008 as the first incumbent in the Director of Staff Diversity Initiatives role. Reporting directly to the Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion, Sid's list of efforts include (but are not limited to): engaging staff and management in increasing staff diversity at all levels of employment; developing and launching a leadership development program for staff of color; and linking staff diversity efforts to the public mission of the university as part of the Strategic Plan for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity .

For Black History Month, Berkeley News spent each week sitting and speaking with a different African American leader on campus. In a four minute podcast, hostess Anne Brice focused on Sid's past nine years of "helping [UC Berkeley] staff feel valued and appreciated for the essential work they do on campus." The interview draws the connection between Sid's youth, growing up in a household with four younger siblings, to now being in control of making "nine thousand staff feel like a valued part of campus."

Since joining UC Berkeley, Sid has remained the only person whose job it is to be focused solely on staff diversity. "I think one of the mainstays of diversity and inclusion work is for everybody to recognize all the uniqueness that you bring in a variety of ways.” Listen and read more below.

NEWS REQUESTS & IDEAS

Time is running out!

WORKPLACE INCLUSION CONFERENCE

The Centre has an Alliance with the Forum and as part of that we are helping to spread the word about this conference.

Don't miss this years dialogue at The Forum on Workplace Inclusion! In it's 30th year, The Forum aims to "Power the Future." We hope that you will join us in Minneapolis, April 10-12 as we begin to stand in the future while engaging in Bold(er) Conversations and the Evolution of Diversity and Inclusion.

"The Evolution of Diversity and Inclusion"

DON'T MISS OUT!

New Forum Conference Feature

–Global Inclusion Forum (GIF)–

Limited Attendance

Immigration, Migration and Integration: It’s OUR Issue

This is an exceedingly important global topic for our times. Two GDIB Expert Panelists and Centre Board members, Nene Molefi and Lynda White , are working with the Forum Conference organizers on this new offering within the conference, which will be on April 10th from 8:00 to 5:00pm. It is designed for those who live or work outside of the United States.

Click below for more information and be sure to scroll down below the Register Now button to read about the program.

FROM & ABOUT EXPERT PANELISTS

SUMMER INSTITUTE for INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

If your life's work includes "building bridges among cultural differences, softening cultural barriers to living life with others, and probing the mysteries of unknown places and peoples," the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC) is for you. GDIB Expert Panelist, Janet Bennett, Ph.D., has been the driving force behind SIIC.

The Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication has a 40-year history of providing professional development for people who believe that this work matters. During its first ten years at Stanford University, and for the last 30 under the auspices of the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) in Portland, Oregon, SIIC has become a creative - and sometimes downright playful - community of intercultural scholars and practitioners from many cultures that meets each year to renew their energies and commitments.

OTHER NEWS

presents

MANAGING THE TENSIONS OF INCLUSION

What does it mean to be inclusive, when there are currently so many forces pulling in multiple directions?

While we may want to foster acceptance of a broader range of styles and identities, we also work to set limits on what is acceptable so we can eliminate discrimination.

Join Inclusion Allies on

March 28thth at 4:30pm EST/1:30pm PST

GDIB Expert Panelists, Bernardo M. Ferdman and Ilene Wasserman will facilitate a dialogue exploring some of the paradoxes and dilemmas we face as we embrace and create truly inclusive workplaces.

For more information visit: http://www.inclusioncoalition.info/

VIRTUAL CAREER INVITATIONAL

April 20, 2018

12 Noon to 2:00 PM ET

#RecruitDisabilityTalent

CAN YOU HELP IDENTIFY CANDIDATES?

The US Business Leadership Network® (USBLN®) is a national non-profit that helps businesses drive performance by leveraging disability inclusion in the workplace, supply chain, and marketplace. They take pride in being a "bridge between businesses and [persons] with disabilities," and as an effort to effectively leverage disability inclusion in the workplace, USBLN ® is hosting a FREE career fair for people with both apparent and non-apparent disabilities and 2+ years work experience in STEM, Finance or Business .

What exactly is a virtual career invitational? In the case of USBLN, it is an excellent opportunity for qualified candidates to virtually meet with Fortune/Global 500 companies from the convenience of their homes or offices.

Know someone who should apply?

Learn More

TOOLS

Free Multicultural Calendar

GDIB Expert Panelist, Barbara Deane offers a free monthly multicultural calendar via Diversity Central.

Spanish & French Translations

Thanks to several sponsors and volunteers, we will unveil the Spanish & French editions of the GDIB in 2018!

EXPERT PANELISTS ON THE MOVE

Congratulations to the Expert Panelists featured in this issue. All have recently changed positions. There are more announcements to come (some we can’t mention yet and others we may not know about. Please let us know ).

Dr. Cindi Love moved from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) in Washington, DC to Out For Undergrad (O4U), a NYC based not-for-profit whose mission is to support high-achieving and diverse LGBTQ undergraduates reach their full potential. Nadia Younes joins EDGE Strategy after having served in a board appointed position as the Diversity & Inclusion Advisor for The International Monetary Fund. In her role with EDGE she will combine her experience as a CDO with design thinking and innovation practices to accelerate progress in gender equality. She has moved from Washington, D.C. to Zug, Switzerland. Renée Yuengling & Associates, LLC has changed its name to CulturePoint, LLC to better reflect its work in culture, bias, and leadership. Taylor Jones and Jessica Kalbfeld will be joining as principals in the company.

Cindi H. Love

Read Bio

Nadia Younes

Read Bio

Renée Yuengling

Read Bio

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

WHERE THE GDIB IS INCLUDED

Please send us information if you are presenting on the GDIB (or including it in a presentation – even a short mention) at a conference or workshop that is open to the public. See the User Tools section of the website for slides and handouts you can use. Please let us know if you are attending any of the conferences so we can make connections. And please spread the word about these sessions to your networks.

White Privilege Conference

April 4 - 7, 2018

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Power the Future!

April 10 - 12, 2018

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Association for

Talent Development

May 6 to 9, 2018

San Diego, California, USA

Summer Institute for

Intercultural Communication

July 11 - 27, 2018

Portland, Oregon, USA

PUBLIC COURSES/WEBINARS

OFFERED BY GDIB EXPERT PANELISTS

Listed here are programs offered by Expert Panelists. Many are offered numerous times on an ongoing basis. While these courses may not be specifically about the GDIB, the content will be helpful in achieving many of the GDIB benchmarks. If you are an Expert Panelist and offer programs open to the public, please let us know and we will list here.

Unconscious Bias

courses including

Train the Trainer

by Cook Ross

Silver Spring,

Maryland • USA

Webinar Resources

courses including

Debate vs Dialogue

by Inclusion Allies

Any Town,

USA

Training & Education

courses including

Workforce 2020

by Winters Group

Any Town

USA

OFFERING SUPPORT

If you want to use the GDIB in conference presentations, blogs, articles, chapters and so forth, we will support you if we can, by providing slides, handouts, and ideas. Go to our site and explore. We’ve put a lot of effort into providing these resources. Please help by adding to what we offer.