DEI Is Under Attack. What's The Plan? | ForbesBLK Summit 2024
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5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Four years after George Floyd's murder ignited America's racial reckoning, DEI initiatives are now under attack, and corporate investment in DEI is on the decline. In this panel, three of the most influential figures in DEI policy and business strategy will discuss how business leaders and the Black community can continue to advance equity and inclusion in the face of significant backlash.
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| 0:00.0 | Please welcome to the stage moderator Ali Jackson Jolly, assistant managing editor for |
| 0:06.4 | D.I. Forbes and panelists Stacy Abrams, political leader, entrepreneur, and author. |
| 0:14.1 | Dr. Cisha Joy Noon, Chief Diversity Officer, |
| 0:18.1 | US House of Representatives, and Iana Parsons, |
| 0:22.2 | co-founder Fearless Fund entrepreneur and leadership expert. |
| 0:27.0 | Well do I not have the best job in the entire world? |
| 0:35.0 | Look who I'm sitting up here with. |
| 0:37.8 | And you know, we had quite a year, |
| 0:40.1 | 2023 and bleeding into 2024 with the attacks on DEI. |
| 0:45.0 | I don't know about you. |
| 0:47.0 | When I look at these power houses up here, |
| 0:50.0 | I feel a little scared for anyone who's trying to take DEI away but let's just get |
| 0:56.5 | right into it because I know these 25 minutes are going to go so fast. |
| 1:01.6 | Stacy so in 2018 and again in 2020, you taught the world the power of the |
| 1:08.8 | black woman, you taught a generation of young girls the power that they had |
| 1:17.4 | specifically around the government and the power in ballot selection. |
| 1:24.4 | Now you're taking on DEI and these attacks on DEI. |
| 1:29.0 | Are there any synergies, or are there any of the same strategies that you used in flipping your |
| 1:35.3 | state that you would be able to use in pushing back against the attacks on |
| 1:41.6 | DEI. |
| 1:43.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:44.0 | DE, it's all the same thing. |
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