DIVERSITY & INCLUSION COMMUNICATION WORK
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35th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration
35th annual celebration, which was held again in-person at 6:30 pm at the Arlington Town Hall Auditorium on Martin Luther King Day, Monday January 16, 2023. Tanisha Sullivan, NAACP Boston President and former Secretary of State candidate was graciously our featured keynote speaker. Her leadership and excellence in civil rights activism is a shining example of Dr. King’s legacy. Thanks to our partnership with ACMI, Arlington Community Media Inc., the program was available for viewing on the local channel and live streamed.
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As Chair, I produced, hosted, planned the event and helped fundraise for our scholarship fund.
Session 4: Why Representation in Communications & Media Matters
Monday April 25th, 12:00-1:30pm
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The Town of Arlington is excited to invite you to once again participate in YW Boston’s 2022 Stand Against Racism campaign. Throughout the month of April the DEI Division will be hosting four different virtual sessions for town and school employees focusing on varying aspects of race and equity.
This session highlighted the importance of diversifying representation in communications and media, and the impacts that certain images and messages have on us. Representation has influence to inspire and lack of representation can alienate. The ways in which media content portrays different identities matters.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Luke Vincent Powers Memorial Grand Rounds at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Wednesday, May 4, 2022, from 8-9am ET, via Zoom.
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The establishment of the Luke Powers Memorial Lecture is to focus on themes that relate to patient safety, communication, and other related issues. The lecture that was part of Clinical Crossroads was an apology for all that went wrong and was published in JAMA.
I spoke of my experience with racism among staff at the hospital while being treated for placenta previa and delivering my son. I provided suggestions for improvements in diversity and inclusion training.
