Heide Parreño Anita Nahal
Diversity Director, ESVB D&I Consultant, ESVB
Each person picked a gem of their choice as they registered for our AAUW NYS District V Conference on “Diversity and Inclusion in Today’s Workplace” held at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City on October 15, 2016.
Diversity and Inclusion is a mosaic of gems reflecting persons from different age, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnic, socio-economic, health and spiritual cultures including the culture of the Deaf, each with unique ideas and abilities. The Empire State Virtual NY Branch is committed to integrate the value of Diversity and Inclusion in the programs and activities of the branch as well as embed in leadership and organizational structure of the Branch.
The Empire State Virtual Branch have four initiatives for 2016 and 2017 as our commitment to D&I. and to continue the attempt to embed in leadership and organizational structure of AAUW the value of diversity and inclusion.
These initiatives are:
- More informative and user friendly website for D&I at ESVB website.
- Yearly award for Empire State Virtual NY Branch members and friends for work done on Diversity and Inclusion.
- Holding D&I programs /events /lectures / representation at District Meeting, State Convention and Leadership Conference in Cazenovia
Share link of D&I survey. Do survey for ESVB, NYS, and National. Disseminate available resources at AAUW National: https://www.aauw.org/resource/diversity-and-inclusion-tool-kit/