With our systems and infrastructure failing multiple facets of our societies, work to promote diversity and inclusion has never been more important.
A more assertive course of action to advance diversity and inclusion focuses on efforts by the Forum of Young Global Leaders to strategize, upskill and report.
We will re-examine our process for identifying and selecting YGLs to ensure it is one that helps inspire and open doors for new generations of leaders from diverse backgrounds.
When I was 14, I spent
Take your Daughter to Work Day doing home visits with my dad, a medical social worker
. At one crumbling low-rise in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we walked up urine-soaked stairs and reached a third-floor apartment where plastic wrap covered windows in place of glass and rat faeces marked the floor. Rodrigo, the apartment’s occupant, was gracious and skeletal. Living without a functioning radiator on a blustery April day, he had full blown AIDS.