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⏳ Just a few hours left to register! Join us today for our second virtual side event as part of the United Nations Fourth Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. 📊 State of Black Economics Report (SOBER): Leveraging Data to Understand Barriers, Take Action and Mitigate Pushback Leveraging the Diversity Institute’s State of Black Economics Report (SOBER), we will explore updated data on the experiences of diverse Black communities across Canada. This event will focus on the importance of data collection, data-driven actions that support diverse Black communities in the workforce and ways that organizations can leverage this data to break down barriers. 🗓 Date: April 14, 2025 🕐 Time: 1:00 p.m to 2:30 p.m. EDT 💻 Platform: Zoom 🔗 Full details and registration: https://lnkd.in/edAbVJ62 🎙 Speakers: – Nancy Mitchell, Director of Research – Special Projects, Diversity InstituteCassandra Dorrington, President & CEO, Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) – Nadine Spencer, CEO, BrandEQ GroupJemal Demeke, Researcher, Wellesley Institute #HumanRights #PeopleofAfricanDescent #Forum #50_30Challenge SSHRC-CRSH #Entrepreneurship

  • Headshots of speakers Nancy Mitchell, Director of Research - Special Projects, Diversity Institute
Cassandra Dorrington, President & CEO, Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council
Nadine Spencer, CEO, BrandEQ Group 
Jemal Demeke, Researcher, Wellesley Institute


Event description: Leveraging the Diversity Institute’s State of Black Economics Report (SOBER), we will explore updated data on the experiences of diverse Black communities across Canada. This event will focus on the importance of data collection, data-driven actions that support diverse Black communities in the workforce, and ways that organizations can leverage this data to break down barriers. Additionally, in the era of pushback on inclusion initiatives, we will explore strategies for staying the course.

Time: Monday April 14th, 2024 1p.m. -2:30 p.m. EDT

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