How Businesses Can Help Create a Truly Inclusive Workforce
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Corporate leaders, QSIDE Institute and JPMorgan Chase, and nonprofits, RBIJ and SHRM, will explore how companies and community-based organizations can create inclusion in their workforces. Learn how hiring practices can open opportunities to untapped talent from Unlock Potential, a Walmart.org-funded groundbreaking hiring program that disrupts the poverty-to-prison pipeline and from JPMorgan Chase about their commitment to equitable hiring. Hear how business and community partnerships are crucial to advance reforms that remove workforce barriers.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify how and what type of partnerships can benefit businesses on the path to becoming fair chance hirers.
2. Learn the business case for building an inclusive workforce.
3. Understand the research that supports hiring from untapped talent pools.
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Caz Walcott
Caz leads RBIJ’s Inclusive Hiring team’s first and second chance projects. Previously, Caz worked at various nonprofits, including program manager: Vera Institute of Justice’s Redefining Public Safety team, Director of Employment Services: Westhab’s NYC and Westchester County shelter employment programs, and Director of Fathers Count: Family Services of Westchester’s Fatherhood Program. There she received a Citation from Mayor Mike Spano for her contribution to Westchester County and the City of Yonkers and a Certificate of Recognition from the Senate of the State of New York for Exemplary Service to the community. In the UK, Caz worked as a probation officer and a youth social worker.
Elizabeth Kohm
Elizabeth Kohm is currently the Manager, Foundation Programs overseeing SHRM Foundation’s strategic priority of building inclusive workplaces through leveraging untapped talent. She is responsible for recognizing that to have a world of work that works for all that greater inclusivity in hiring and retention practices will result in equitable and diverse work environments where both business and employees can thrive. She leads the Foundation’s initiatives around evidence-based strategies, learning, and actionable resources for all HR stakeholders to increase their knowledge and capacity to leverage untapped talent pools for people with disabilities, military community, justice-impacted individuals, older workers and opportunity youth.
Jude Higdon
Jude Higdon, Ed.D. (any pronouns) serves as the COO for the QSIDE Institute. In this role, Jude develops programs and partners with CBOs to use quantitative methods to eradicate oppression, marginalization, and injustice. Jude holds an Ed.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California, an Ed.M. in Technology in Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a B.S. in African Politics from Northwestern University. Jude is an avid yogi, horror movie enthusiast, and news junkie. S/he speaks passable Swahili, Spanish, and French, and slays at karaoke.
Jac Rivers
Jac Rivers serves as Vice President, Program Officer at JPMorganChase (JPMC). Jac leads the firm’s strategic philanthropic grantmaking in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Southern New Jersey.
Utilizing her career experience in law, public policy and government administration, Jac mobilizes innovative approaches to racial equity and wealth creation for Black and Latino communities. In her current role, she is responsible for the development, execution, and administration of the firm’s grantmaking programs and activities designed to drive economic inclusion by providing more opportunities for homeownership, access to affordable housing, entrepreneurship and bolstering financial health.