JoeHahn has been hired as the first equity, diversity and inclusion coordinator for Benton County.
County officials authorized the position last year, and JoeHahn, who did his undergraduate work at Western Oregon University in Monmouth and also worked at WOU as a resident director, celebrated three weeks on the job Tuesday at a Board of Commissioners goal-setting work session.
JoeHahn uses he/they pronouns and uses a âmononym of my first and last name as one word.â
âMy family has really impacted how I do my work,â JoeHahn said. âI m a biracial, nonbinary gay person. I was adopted, and with divorce and remarriages I have multiple parents, cultures and a lot of siblings. I have a big family spread throughout the country.â
Izzi Lerwill, transgender and non-binary chartered accountant at Grant Thornton UK, shares 10 practical tips for making the workplace more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ people.
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This Black History Month, there s a heightened call to dismantle systemic racism.
Insider and the National Black Chamber of Commerce highlighted leaders advancing racial equity.
These leaders shared their influence on Black and brown communities and their future goals.
This Black History Month seems different from those of recent years.
There s an overwhelming outcry from the American public, specifically from Black people, people of color, and their allies, to combat systemic racism and enact equity.
In May, video footage of the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, went viral, sparking an uproar. Business leaders denounced the killing and promised to do their part to effect change. Suddenly there was more attention put on the antiracist work of Black people and people of color, work that s been going on for decades.
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Recognizing the importance of diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, Biglaw firms have started to implement strategies to improve how their workforces operate when it comes to moving toward achieving equity. We’ve previously acknowledged Dorsey & Whitney, Hogan Lovells, Reed Smith, and Cooley as firms where approved diversity and inclusion-related work will be billable for attorneys and will count toward bonus thresholds. We’ve just received word that yet another leading law firm has had a successful program like this that’s been quietly running since summer 2020 and this firm is offering the highest number of billable diversity and inclusion hours we’ve heard of yet.
Investment Week is hosting its Global Emerging Markets Briefing at a pivotal time for investors as they start to position for the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, although risks remain.
During this interactive briefing, we will hear from a number of global emerging market managers about their response to the extraordinary events of the past year and their outlook for the rest of the year and beyond.
The managers will identify where they are seeing the biggest opportunities and risks at the moment in emerging markets and explain the role their strategies could play in client portfolios.
Attendees will also get the chance to network with peers, quiz our speakers, as well as benefit from CPD points