A conversation with Love Malone, founder of The Gradient, a consultancy dedicated to elevating and connecting talent of color in advertising.

This week, Adweek introduced its first-ever industry award honoring LGBTQ leaders.One of Adweek’s 2020 Pride Stars, Mastercard chief inclusion officer Randall Tucker, joined D&I TBD to talk about leading the company’s global diversity and inclusion programming. Tucker also addressed the importance of bringing one’s full self to work, and about how for so many people, there’s no separating your identity into neat little categories.

Adweek's D&I TBD podcast is honored this week to have two guest hosts: Kai Deveraux Lawson and Simeon Coker, hosts of the must-listen podcast Mixed Company. The resulting conversation about violence against Black Americans is just as powerful, contemplative and vital as we expected.

The opinions expressed here are, of course, those of the hosts, but Adweek is proud to host a conversation our industries need to hear and engage with.

Welcome to episode four of Adweek’s new diversity and inclusion podcast, D&I TBD. This week, Streamlytics CEO Angela Benton joins to talk about diversifying artificial intelligence, data brokerage, and more. On the pod, Benton riffs on how the latest diversity scandal at Google shows how the tech industry sometimes takes steps backward, as well as forward, in its slow march to inclusion.

On episode 3 of D&I TBD, Adweek is joined by strategist Nina Kossoff. Currently on furlough from Matter due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kossoff has sat on brand planning and strategy teams at Imprint Projects, McCann, Ogilvy & Mather, and Barbarian Group.

Jezz Chung, Anomaly’s diversity and engagement lead, joins us this week for episode two of Adweek’s new podcast D&I TBD. Speaking with diversity & inclusion reporter Mary Emily O’Hara, Chung muses on how inclusive workplace goals are shifting during Covid-19 layoffs and cutbacks.

In the first episode, Glenn Singleton, president and founder of Pacific Educational Group and Courageous Conversation, discusses his early experiences in becoming a leader in the space, the importance of authenticity in creating inclusive spaces and the persistent issues of systemic racism that holds the industry back.