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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To honor MLK this week, we have the following timely sessions among our various Equity Teams to share. If you are taking the long weekend and want to spend time reflecting on what you can do and learn from leaders of color, you can access our YouTube Channel, sign up for these sessions below, or read some of our Black Lives Matter feature stories, below. The time is now to strengthen, invigorate and transform our democracy. Join our inclusive leaders to learn how:
Sign up below for our January Equity Team events:
- 1/21 Tech - Black Women Democratizing Tech: Creating Space for Success
- 1/25 Health - Solutions for Inextricably Related Challenges in Health: Our Democracy, COVID, Access, Equity, and Racial Injustice
- 1/26 STEM - Downstream Impact of Unconscious Bias and Subconscious Discouragement
- 1/27 Foundations & Funders - Crises Calling for Foundations: Democracy, Access, Equity, ROI and Undeniable Realities
- 1/28 K-12 - Recognizing Our Collective Cultural Identity: Teaching and Leading with Truth and Tolerance
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I am Native American, raised by a single mother and grandmother, not entirely connected to the culture and people of my homeland. I began to set my own goals, work on myself, and forge my own identity. I cultivated my ideas of responsibility while away from and within my home, helping around the house while my mother and grandmother were working. With no supervision, I had to bring myself to the expectations of my family, and even more so when I attended boarding school as I maintained my studies as well as independent living.
This is not my only struggle however, as early in my high school career, I was afflicted with sickness: Pneumonia, which quickly developed Steven-Johnson's Syndrome. This confined me to a bed for a month in a hospital where every day I had to subject myself to extreme pain to even eat. That month of isolation from all friends and most of my family, along with my growing distance from my studies taught me a great deal of optimism and perseverance as I had to learn
lessons without much guidance from teachers. This also instilled within me an ability to learn and comprehend important and valuable topics quickly and employ them just as quickly. I use the same skill now to constantly seek ways to improve and overcome any obstacle I may face. But not only has this incident taught me a great deal of discipline, but also allowed me to press my emotions and anxieties into song and creative outlets, helping to guide me to the path
I walk today as a musician and eventual music therapist.
I had begun my musical self-training a few years before this, practicing guitar lightly with a good friend of mine and learning how to play with various YouTube videos. But after this friend left, and I was alone, the isolation and intensity of the situation brought music and, in particular, singing to the forefront. I practiced more and more often until I was able to leave my isolation, and continued, finding solace in it as I had during my time in my emergency room.
These experiences have shaped who I am as an independent, free-thinking, responsible, and creative student. I hope to hold my peers to the same standards, pushing them to succeed when they feel downtrodden, showing the light within the dark, and hopefully granting them the courage and support they need to carry on. Fostering honesty and
authenticity as I do so.
These traits, along with the determination, optimism, and discipline learned from my various struggles are those that are quite desired in all working fields, and I shall carry these through any job I may find myself in. In addition, my music training and work will grant me certain creativity that is not found in most other people, a trait that can be invaluable in most fields.
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Click below to watch the Inclusive Leader Award Ceremony featuring inspirational messages from the diverse Award Winners
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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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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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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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