2020 GlobalMindED
The Future of Work is Diverse, Inclusive, Just and Equitable
GlobalMindED closes the equity gap by creating a capable, diverse talent pipeline through connections to role models, mentors, internships for low-income students, returning adults, First Gen to college and inclusive leaders who teach them, work with them and hire them.
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This week and next, readers will meet our outstanding GlobalMindED Ambassadors, thanks to our partnership with Every Learner Everywhere. You will learn first hand what these strong students have been through and how their determination defines their destiny. You will see why working with these students in your own diverse talent pipeline will enrich your company and your mission. These students were part of a cohort who produced two reports, Student Speak: Student Voices Informing Educational Strategies and Peer to Peer Students Speak, and for whom our 2020 Inclusive Leader Awards and mentors are some among many role models.
Sign up below for our next Higher Ed Equity Team panel: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: This Time is Now - How Do We Stop Deferring the Dream?
Join us TODAY for Lisa Neal-Graves’ session, Mic Check: Listening to the Voices of Young Black Women in Tech as part of the virtual Consumer Electronics Conference (CES) as she interviews leading, young black women in technology. Sign up below at the FQ (Female Quotient) link.
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When going for a job interview, I always get asked the same question: What is your biggest strength? My answer is always the same. My Grit is my biggest strength. According to Merriam-Webster, Grit is “firmness of mind or spirit: unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger.”
My name is Serita Liles. I am a currently senior at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University majoring in Sport Science and Fitness Management. In my life, I have seen my fair share of hardship. But for the purpose of this newsletter, I want to speak on the recent events that have brought challenge to my life as a young African American woman. Upon my return to the States from studying abroad, positive cases of Coronavirus started to sweep our nation. This is what we know today as the 2020 Pandemic. However, we currently face two pandemics in America: Coronavirus and Racism. Although less talked about, systemic racism is a public health problem and it's not just recent. What if I told you that doctors in the nineteen fifties decided to test the beginning stages of birth control on low-income women in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory? What if I told you that black people living in America are two times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease, one of the top fatal diseases in America? This topic is extremely controversial. However, this perspective especially as a byproduct of what it means to be a woman of color in America is what fuels my grit.
2020 was hard for many of us, but for me, it was filled with mixed emotions of what it means to be a black American and what it means to be human. How do I distance myself from worldly chaos and find solace? I chose to focus my mind on positivity. I chose to go vegetarian. I chose to read the Bible more often. I chose to exercise and meditate. But most importantly, I chose to focus on peace. It’s easy to get angry at today’s current events and hate the actions of insensitive citizens. But what will that solve? Attending the GlobalMindED virtual conference and follow up meeting calls encouraged me to take the mental fog of today’s madness and find a healthy way to cope. I mentioned plenty of times during our zoom calls that I was so focused on the effects of 2020, I had very little time for myself. The GlobalMindED team has really help me prioritize myself throughout 2020.
Starting a new chapter into the new year, I am keeping my mental health at the forefront. With the recent events that has happened at the U.S Capital, I cannot minimize how much it has affected me. But I can say, it has made me that much hungrier to achieve greatness because civil injustice in America is intolerable. My fight may not be political, but I am working my hardest to produce change in healthcare within the years to come.
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JANUARY 11 - JANUARY 13, 2021
The Female Quotient is proud to return as the official Equality Partner at CES. The FQ's Equality Lounge® @ CES 2021 will take place on January 11, 12 and 13. We will host a series of discussions covering intersectionality, our new frontier of work, and how to design more equitable tech.
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11:30AM - 12PM ET
Mic Check: Listening to the Voices of Young Black Women in Tech
Lisa Neal-Graves, Chief Change Maker, GlobalMindED
Joy Ofudu, Associate Brand Marketing Manager, Instagram Omotola Shogunle, Software Developer, Ampersand UK
Courtney Blount, Business Marketing, Snap Inc.
Tolulope Ogunremi, Founder, Coders of Colour
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GlobalMindED and the SDG Impact Fund are delighted to announce GlobalMindED's Donor Advised Fund. 2020 is the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Women's Declaration and Action Platform. Many from around the world are thinking of 2020 as the gateway to our most vital decade for delivering equity, the Sustainable Development Goals, and a world where all can thrive. Our key time for these outcomes is 2020-2030.
GlobalMindED DAF and the SDG Impact Fund are a powerful combined force for good as the 2019 year comes to a close and we reflect on the gratitude and the commitments we make to the causes we care most about. The DAF offers immense power and flexibility for giving prior to the year's end as you plant seeds of generous intention for 2020 and the decade ahead.
When you contribute to GlobalMindED, you support First Gen students. We have served more than 400 students by connecting them to role models, mentors, internships and jobs. Your generous support will allow us to take our work 10x and reach these talented students at scale who lack the resources and support we provide. Your support also helps teachers who can't afford the conference fees, faculty at colleges which are under resourced and students who persist at those universities despite food insecurity and/or housing insecurity.
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Links to read about Inclusive Leaders, many of whom are African American and people of color:
Curated sessions from GlobalMindED 2020 YouTube channel:
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From the Center for Positive Organizations:
From the Economist:
From Forbes:
From Harvard Business Review:
From the World Academy of Art & Science and UN; Geneva Global Leadership in the 21st Century econference:
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Listen here for an interview with Pam Newkirk, GlobalMindED speaker and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion- Dollar Business.
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Meet GlobalMindED Founder, Carol Carter as interviewed by Tim Moore on his podcast Success Made to Last: From Success to Significance
Listen to Part 1 of Carol's interview
Listen to Part 2 of Carol's interview
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Recent GlobalMindED Newsletter Profiles:
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THE FLYOVER NATION
Energy's Role in a Troubled Heartland
By J.C. Whorton
A unique and timely discussion of the challenging issues facing the country’s troubled Heartland.
Since the beginning of westward expansion into the Heartland’s vast regions, natural resource development has played a historic role in shaping its communities. Today, domestic oil and gas development offers one of the strongest prospects for the Heartland’s present and future prosperity as well as the nation’s re-emergence as a dominant player in the global energy economy.
The U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, two circumstances that are universally disrupting international geopolitical order. The earth has a finite supply of natural resources and a rapidly growing and over consuming population.
As America positions itself for a very uncertain and constantly evolving global marketplace, will the Heartland become America’s “great connector” or “great divide”?
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J.C. Whorton is a senior level energy and financial professional with over forty years of essential experience. Having a ranching and Native American heritage, Mr. Whorton is a strong advocate for rural education and economic development initiatives.
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Since 2006 when the flagship TGR Learning Lab opened its doors in Anaheim, CA, TGR Foundation has had a lot to celebrate, including its most recent milestone of one million students impacted by TGR EDU: Explore, alone.
Developed in partnership with Discovery Education, TGR EDU: Explore is a free digital resource library that offers interactive web experiences, lesson plans, training videos and tools for educators, students and families to explore new disciplines and gain skills for a modern and expanding workforce.
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As you start the New Year, are you looking for ways to re-engineer your classroom culture? Check out Designing the Future: How Engineering Builds Creative Critical Thinking in the Classroom. The associated website has lots of activities, projects, and resources you can implement immediately. Our fall workshops using the book as a roadmap for change have been highly successful. Start designing the future today - try using the customized Study Guide for a book study in your PLC. Or contact ProjectEngin or Solution Tree to learn how you can bring professional development based on Ann's book to your school, district, or conference.
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