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An Impassioned Mayday for Boating Education Safety isn’t just the realm of government and nonprofits. Our industry needs to engage now Author: Apr 26, 2021 During my 35-plus years as a marine industry marketer, I’ve embraced two caused that compelled me to action. One was our industry’s need to be more welcoming and inclusive toward women. I launched a national educational training program, Marine Marketing to Women. For three years, on my own dime, I conducted and published national research, and produced a video training program. I was hired to present what I dubbed “The W Equat...

OTJ Architects Appoints Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access Director Share Article National Architecture and Interior Design Practice Reaffirms Commitment to Social and Racial Justice through Creation of Strategic Leadership Role WASHINGTON (PRWEB) April 24, 2021 OTJ Architects is pleased to announce the appointment of Alvia Howard, NCIDQ, CID, Associate AIA, as firmwide Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access. In this role, Ms. Howard will lead the development of strategic, actionable, measurable, and time-bas...

Jintao Zhai/Correspondent Wicked Local Asian Americans in Belmont are rallying around a common anti-racism cause to address underrepresentation in Belmont’s organizations and reduce racial tensions, according to Julie Wu, senior member of the town’s Pan-Asian Coalition. She said Asians make up nearly 20% of the town’s population but are underrepresented in the town’s committees. Among nine members of the Diversity Task Force, only two are of Asian descent, said Wu, 54, a Taiwanese American who co-founded the coalition in mid-March. Wu said she had sent the Select Board a petition re...

Click the thumbs up > The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has launched a Diversity Task Force as part of a drive to tackle diversity in automotive through a year-long project. AM Magazine columnist Professor Jim Saker, the newly-appointed president of the IMI, is to lead the new Taskforce to investigate, research and provide recommendations on how to improve the ‘effectiveness’ of automotive businesses by becoming a ‘more attractive employment opportunity’. The Taskforce will have a focus on attracting the BAME community to the sector, helping the automotive sector become a...

Feet in the door: can training schemes dent adland’s diversity problem? Often criticized for a lack of diversity within their walls and in their boardrooms, the last year has forced ad agencies to reflect on their diversity and inclusion policies. With many ad shops hoping to tackle the issue through education and training schemes aimed at funneling in a new school of talent, we explore whether the strategy is working. “Like most agencies, we hadn’t been doing enough,“ admits Camilla Kemp, chief exec of M&C Saatchi. Spurred on to respond to concerns raised ...