Gender Equality & The Path to Inclusive Workplaces - ANIELA UNGURESAN - Highlights

Gender Equality & The Path to Inclusive Workplaces - ANIELA UNGURESAN - Highlights

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Co-founder of EDGE Certified Foundation (Economic Dividends for Gender Equality)
Champion of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace

I co-founded what has become EDGE for gender and intersectional equity back in 2009, and at that time workplace gender and intersectional equity were still very much seen as a societal issue rather than a business issue. Organizations were asking themselves if it's within their role to tackle these issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, or if they are the mere recipients of what is going on in societies, following the beliefs around what men and women should be doing at work and at home. So at that time we wanted to contribute to this transition from making gender and intersectional equity a business issue and help organizations see that how they manage their talent and how they are able to attract, develop, motivate, and retain diverse talent is a key component of their sustainable business success.

ANIELA UNGURESAN - Co-founder, Economic Dividends for Gender Equality - EDGE Cert. Foundation

ANIELA UNGURESAN - Co-founder, Economic Dividends for Gender Equality - EDGE Cert. Foundation

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Co-founder of EDGE Certified Foundation (Economic Dividends for Gender Equality)
Champion of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace

I co-founded what has become EDGE for gender and intersectional equity back in 2009, and at that time workplace gender and intersectional equity were still very much seen as a societal issue rather than a business issue. Organizations were asking themselves if it's within their role to tackle these issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, or if they are the mere recipients of what is going on in societies, following the beliefs around what men and women should be doing at work and at home. So at that time we wanted to contribute to this transition from making gender and intersectional equity a business issue and help organizations see that how they manage their talent and how they are able to attract, develop, motivate, and retain diverse talent is a key component of their sustainable business success.

Empowering Girls: MEMORY BANDA's Vision for Leadership & Cultural Change - Highlights

Empowering Girls: MEMORY BANDA's Vision for Leadership & Cultural Change - Highlights

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Human & Girls’ Rights Activist
Founder & Executive Director of Foundation for Girls Leadership

One thing that we should remember as young people is that everything allowed us is political by nature. We shouldn't be really scared of getting ourselves into different political aspects of issues around us. Be bold enough to speak out on the biggest challenges that are around you. And at the same time, it's in us to understand what kind of environment I am in? What is it that I can contribute to the problems that I am facing? That young people or people in general facing? So just go on. Be a part of that, and you'll be surprised that you will be the biggest game-changer.

MEMORY BANDA - Human and Girls’ Rights Activist - Founder of Foundation for Girls Leadership

MEMORY BANDA - Human and Girls’ Rights Activist - Founder of Foundation for Girls Leadership

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Human & Girls’ Rights Activist
Founder & Executive Director of Foundation for Girls Leadership

One thing that we should remember as young people is that everything allowed us is political by nature. We shouldn't be really scared of getting ourselves into different political aspects of issues around us. Be bold enough to speak out on the biggest challenges that are around you. And at the same time, it's in us to understand what kind of environment I am in? What is it that I can contribute to the problems that I am facing? That young people or people in general facing? So just go on. Be a part of that, and you'll be surprised that you will be the biggest game-changer.

The Feminist Evolution: ELLEN RAPOPORT on HBO Max's MINX - Highlights

The Feminist Evolution: ELLEN RAPOPORT on HBO Max's MINX - Highlights

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Creator, Executive Producer & Showrunner of Minx
starring Ophelia Lovibond & Jake Johnson

What drew me to the time period of the 70s was the real story of these magazines Playgirl, Viva, Foxy Lady, all the magazines that existed in this period. So it was a natural outgrowth of trying to tell a story that was inspired by, to some extent, real-life events. When I started developing Minx, what struck me about the 70s, in particular, is just how similar it was to our time. It seems like the magazines were covering all the same issues that we're now talking about. Obviously, we all saw with the leaked decision in Roe vs. Wade just how close we are to that time period and how far we haven't come.

ELLEN RAPOPORT - Creator, Exec. Producer & Showrunner of MINX starring Ophelia Lovibond & Jake Johnson

ELLEN RAPOPORT - Creator, Exec. Producer & Showrunner of MINX starring Ophelia Lovibond & Jake Johnson

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Creator, Executive Producer & Showrunner of Minx
starring Ophelia Lovibond & Jake Johnson

What drew me to the time period of the 70s was the real story of these magazines Playgirl, Viva, Foxy Lady, all the magazines that existed in this period. So it was a natural outgrowth of trying to tell a story that was inspired by, to some extent, real-life events. When I started developing Minx, what struck me about the 70s, in particular, is just how similar it was to our time. It seems like the magazines were covering all the same issues that we're now talking about. Obviously, we all saw with the leaked decision in Roe vs. Wade just how close we are to that time period and how far we haven't come.

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women & The Struggle for Justice w/ TREVA B. LINDSEY - Highlights
TREVA B. LINDSEY - Black Feminist Historian - Author of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women & The Struggle for Justice
In the Dream House with Author CARMEN MARIA MACHADO - Highlights
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO - Lambda Literary Award Winning Author of In the Dream House - Her Body and Other Parties
The Sustainability Puzzle: How Systems Thinking, Climate Action, Circularity and Social Transformation Can Improve Health, Wealth & Wellbeing for All - Highlights
ALICE SCHMIDT - Global Sustainability Advisor - Co-Author of The Sustainability Puzzle
Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring - MARYBETH GASMAN - Highlights

Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring - MARYBETH GASMAN - Highlights

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Author of Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring
Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions

We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you’re a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues.

MARYBETH GASMAN - Exec. Director, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions

MARYBETH GASMAN - Exec. Director, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions

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Author of Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring
Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions

We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you’re a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues.

"Diversity and Maturity: ALI SCHOUTEN Explores the Evolving Themes of iCarly Revival - Highlights

"Diversity and Maturity: ALI SCHOUTEN Explores the Evolving Themes of iCarly Revival - Highlights

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Emmy-Nominated Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer of iCarly

What we deal more in the second season with how your online persona and your real-life persona sometimes can't help but be at odds with one another. In the first episode back we get into how women are treated, how women in relationships are treated online. In a later episode, we deal with how women are or are not allowed to express their anger online as content creators. So it’s something we talked a lot about in the room. That fracturing of self, that even in a goofy show that's very lighthearted and entertaining, it’s something that we do discuss and try to sneak little tidbits in there.

ALI SCHOUTEN - Emmy-Nominated Showrunner & Executive Producer of iCarly on Forging a Career in Television

ALI SCHOUTEN - Emmy-Nominated Showrunner & Executive Producer of iCarly on Forging a Career in Television

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Emmy-Nominated Showrunner, Executive Producer & Writer of iCarly

What we deal more in the second season with how your online persona and your real-life persona sometimes can't help but be at odds with one another. In the first episode back we get into how women are treated, how women in relationships are treated online. In a later episode, we deal with how women are or are not allowed to express their anger online as content creators. So it’s something we talked a lot about in the room. That fracturing of self, that even in a goofy show that's very lighthearted and entertaining, it’s something that we do discuss and try to sneak little tidbits in there.