Dimensions of Diversity

Host Lloyd Freeman is joined by professor Stacy Hawkins of Rutgers University. Professor Hawkins teaches courses at Rutgers in Constitutional Law, Employment Law and an original seminar on Diversity and the Law.

On this episode, Hawkins and Freeman discuss COVID-19's impact on workplace demographics, and specifically how women have been disproportionally impacted. The discussion focuses on what long-term impacts the pandemic will have on women in the workplace and what the future looks like for creating a more equal and equitable workplace in the future.

To learn more about Lloyd Freeman, click here: https://www.bipc.com/lloyd-freeman.

To learn more about Stacy Hawkins, click here: https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/shawkins. 

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Host Lloyd Freeman is joined by two guests with powerful backgrounds in Diversity and Inclusion and specifically, the empowerment of black women in the workplace. 

This week's guests are Kimberly Reed, Global Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Strategist at the Reed Development Group, and Monique Myatt-Galloway, regional counsel of a federal agency and past president of the the Barristers' Association of Philadelphia.

Reed is also a Certified Diversity Practitioner, top-rated corporate and leadership facilitator & trainer, and the author of Optimists Always Win!: Moving from Defeat to Life's C-Suite, available on Amazon.

And beyond her career at the federal level, Myatt-Galloway is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia teaching Introduction to Trial Advocacy to second and third year law students.

On this episode, the three talk about the significant behind Kamala Harris' election as the first woman and first black woman to serve as Vice President. The discussion centers around what her achievement means for black women today, and just as importantly, how her election does not mean that the work to increase workplace equity for black women is anywhere near done.

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Host Lloyd Freeman is joined by Professor Wendy Greene of Drexel University in Philadelphia to examine the law and effects of racial discrimination against African descendants’ natural hair in the workplace.

Greene is the first tenured African American woman on the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law faculty and has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing racial, color, and gender equity in workplaces and beyond. Her 2008 article, “Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Base Characteristics) Got to Do with It?”, is being adopted in history-making state and federal legislation known as the C.R.O.W.N. Acts (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Acts). These will be the first laws in the nation to expressly recognize race discrimination is inclusive of the discrimination African descendants’ encounter based upon their natural and protective hairstyles such as afros, twists, locs, and braids.

Greene’s legal scholarship and public advocacy, which explores how constructions of identity inform and constrain anti-discrimination law, have generated civil rights protections for victims of discrimination throughout the United States.

Greene is one of the world’s leading legal experts on this global civil rights issue and founder of the #FreeTheHair campaign, she is currently writing her first book, #FreeTheHair: Locking Black Hair to Civil Rights Movements, with the University of California, Berkeley Press.

To learn more about Greene, click here: https://drexel.edu/law/faculty/fulltime_fac/wendy-greene/

To learn more about Lloyd Freeman, click here: https://www.bipc.com/lloyd-freeman

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