WE HAVE DIVERSITY. WE HAVE EQUITY. WE HAVE INCLUSION. WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS CHANGE.
Monday, November 2, 2020
12:30 to 2:00 PM Hawaii Standard Time
(2:30 PM Pacific / 4:30 PM Central / 5:30 PM Eastern)
Location: Online via Zoom
$15 per person
We have Diversity. We have Equity. We have Inclusion. What we really need is Change.
There is lots of language for us to leverage when we explore DEI work. As we have all heard, “diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance.” The concepts and ideas inherent in DEI are important, but mostly, they represent only the foundation for where our work begins.
This talk offers a look at the history of race relations in America and a deep dive into understanding what the process of true change actually entails, and finally aims to paint a picture of what the true change looks like. How can we prompt authentic change in individuals, ourselves, and in society? How do we truly awaken the woke? Can we all be anti-racist? And why is it taking so long?
EVENT AGENDA:
12:15 Zoom room opens: 15 min prior to event
12:30 Welcome: Introductions, overview
12:35 Presentation
1:20 Questions and Discussion
2:00 Event Concludes
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Andre Robert Lee is a Keynote Speaker and Consultant around issues related to Anti-Racism, Inclusion and Diversity for educational and corporate institutions. He is also a filmmaker and uses his films in his keynotes and presentations. Andre’s experiences include Many Things; New York City Public Schools, The Ford Foundation, Miramax Films, Urbanworld, Film Movement, Diana Ross, BET, Universal, HBO, Picturehouse, and Dreamworks. Andre directed and produced The Prep School Negro and took it on a worldwide tour over the past 10 years. Andre served as producer on the documentary I’m Not Racist… Am I? Andre received a Fellowship in 2013 and was tasked with directing and producing the 12-month series Life Cycles of Inequality: A Colorlines Series on Black Men. Andre also created The Election Effects Project for Spike TV. His next project is called Virtually Free, a film about incarcerated youth in Richmond, Virginia. He is also working on a documentary about the Civil Rights trips he leads for The Nation magazine, and Andre has been leading the cause for development of a feature film or series on the life and times of Bayard Rustin. Andre also teaches Filmmaking at the Germantown Friends School. Andre has been a professor of writing at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.