#morevoices

Whether you gravitate towards a TED-specific effort, a broader inclusion effort, a ‘we can build it’ effort, or joining ongoing programs to add you own and others’ voices, there is a way for you to join in.

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:21:00 -0500

Whether you gravitate towards a TED-specific effort, a broader inclusion effort, a ‘we can build it’ effort, or joining ongoing programs to add you own and others’ voices, there is a way for you to join in. :

via “Advocating for Inclusion: A roundup of ideas from post-TEDx636 roundtable” by CV Harquail (December 13, 2010)

While these suggestions are specific to TED, the general idea behind each step is applicable to any organization.

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:36:00 -0500

While these suggestions are specific to TED, the general idea behind each step is applicable to any organization.:

via “SHE Should Talk At TED: 5 Ways to Get Started” by CV Harquail (December 7, 2010)

Thanks so much to you readers who got in touch with me to share your ideas about a diversity & inclusion action plan for TED. I had the chance to fold some of these ideas into a live conversation with two of my favorite NYC feminists, Dr. Debra Condon and Gloria Feldt, and together we came up with these 5 possible Action Steps to share with you readers, and with the TEDWomen /TEDx636_11thAve follow-up round table being sponsored by NYWSE. While these suggestions are specific to TED, the general idea behind each step is applicable to any organization.

Check out the SHE Should Talk at TED facebook page– I’ll keep you posted here, too.

12/8/10 #morevoices panel included (left to right): Brittany...

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:24:44 -0500

12/8/10 #morevoices panel included (left to right): Brittany McCandless (moderator), Adaora Udoji, CV Harquail, Liza Sabater, Ritu Yadav

Bios below:

CV Harquail, PhD, AuthenticOrganizations.com

CV works as a consultant, independent scholar, and organizational change advocate. She writes the blog AuthenticOrganizations, where she combines current business and political issues with management science to offer a feminist, social justice, and not-entirely-capitalist perspective on organizations and their members. AuthenticOrganizations examines the challenges of aligning an organization’s identity, actions, and purpose, and recommends tactics for members and organizations that want to become more authentic in their work together, and make a positive difference in the world.

CV holds an AB in Political Theory from Bryn Mawr College. She has a PhD in Leadership & Organizational Behavior from the Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan, where she also did graduate work and taught in the Women’s Studies Program. CV was a professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. CV’s academic research addresses organizational identification and identity, branding & the organization, corporate reputation, and organizational diversity & inclusion. She lives with her feminist husband and two daughters in Montclair, NJ.

Liza Sabater

Liza Sabater is a culture pundit, online communications technologist and blog publisher named by Fast Company as one of the most influential women in technology in 2010.

She is founder of culturekitchen (2000), a blog described as a progressive’s dream with “a little attitude, a lot of scholarship, a good dose of humor and plenty of enlightening stuff”. It is the founding blog of theFeminist Bloggers Network, the Digital Ethnorati Project, Progressive Immigration Caucus and the Progressive Bloggers Business Network.

The Daily Gotham , a member of BlogPAC’s 50 state initiative, is described by New York politics insiders as “the 800 lb. gorilla” of New York City’s grassroots. It is one of the founding blogs of the New York Progressive Bloggers Caucus.

Liza has advised, contributed or worked with a wide variety of organizations including Blogher, Colorlines, CUNY-Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Impeach PAC, Kenneth Cole’s Awearness blog, Media Bloggers Association, New America Media, Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident, Phelps-Stokes’ Ralph Bunche Societies, Rhizome.org, Sunlight Foundation, The Nation, The Root, The Sanctuary/Pro-migrant.org.

In 2008 she was rated in the top 10 of NowPublic’ s MostPublic Index, a list of the 50 most influential individuals in New York’s new media market.

She was a frequent guest in Farai Chideya’s News & Notes (NPR) and has appeared in Laura Flanders’GritTV, CNN, FOX5 Good Day New York, PBS’ NewsHour Online and HTI’s Destination Casa Blanca with Ray Suarez, and others.

Publications where she has been quoted, published or interviewed include The New York Daily News, New York Times, New York Observer, The Village Voice, Metro NY, Wired.com, Washington Post, Colorlines Magazine, AlterNet.org, Working Mother, Glamour Magazine, Le Monde, El País, and others.

Whenever she is not working on her blogs or evangelizing about the social media revolution, Liza returns to her secret identity as her boys’ mom in New York City.

Adaora Udoji

One of the 25 Most Influential African Americans. —Essence Magazine

Adaora Udoji is an award-winning journalist and lawyer. Most recently, she was the co-host of the popular public radio morning drive show “The Takeaway”. Udoji’s ability to rapidly distill complex relationships and issues — skills honed over 12 years of work as a war correspondent at ABC News, a correspondent at CNN and later an anchor at CourtTV.

Raised in the United States and Nigeria, Udoji has since covered some of the most critical international and domestic stories of the past dozen years as an on-air correspondent, delivering award-winning coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for ABC News, the last four presidential elections and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more. Udoji was among those who contributed to CNN receiving the Peabody Award for their heralded coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and a DuPont Columbia University Award for their coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia.

Ritu Yadav, Research Director, Criterion Ventures

Ritu started her professional career in New York print and online media, including SmartMoney and The Wall Street Journal, holding a diverse set of editorial and project management roles. She transitioned into the nonprofit space using skills from business journalism to work in small business development and financial literacy in low-income communities in Brooklyn. Ritu has traveled extensively in Latin America and South Asia, while also working with NGOs specializing in fair-trade, income generation, education, fund-raising and other fields. Among the projects designed and launched during this time were a housing assistance program at CAMBA, project evaluation program for grantmaker Compartamos Colombia, fair-trade websites for Fairtrasa and guide training/tour of a 16th century urban village in New Delhi for the Hope Project. Ritu integrated and enhanced her field experiences with a master’s degree in nonprofit management from The New School, while developing further expertise of international development and social enterprise. She is deeply committed to issues of gender equity, economic empowerment and educational opportunity, particularly in the global South. After a global childhood, Ritu fully appreciates the diversity and energy of New York City while balancing it with more meditative practices.

Moderator:

Brittany McCandless, Producer, CNN

Brittany McCandless is a journalist with a print and broadcast background. She currently works on CNN’s newest primetime show, Parker Spitzer, where she researches for co-host Eliot Spitzer and produces guest segments on politics, economics, culture and foreign affairs. She has previously produced for CNN’s Weekend Newsroom, American Morning and for Good Morning America at ABC News. She has also written for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and several online publications.

McCandless is an ambassador in the New York Young Leaders Program, through which she helped organize and host the NYYL Women’s Leadership Conference this spring. She was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, where she graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi research award for her thesis on the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

whiteboard filled with recommendations that came up during the...

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:00:39 -0500

whiteboard filled with recommendations that came up during the 12/8/10 #morevoices panel.

New York Women Social Entrepreneurs hosted a roundtable following the conclusion of TEDx636EleventhAve on Wednesday night, with the topic “Building on TED and the TEDWomen Conference: How Can We Make Conferences More Inclusive Spaces?”

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:24:00 -0500

New York Women Social Entrepreneurs hosted a roundtable following the conclusion of TEDx636EleventhAve on Wednesday night, with the topic “Building on TED and the TEDWomen Conference: How Can We Make Conferences More Inclusive Spaces?”:

via “With Live Speakers and Simulcast, Local TEDx Event Expands Scope of First TEDWomen Conference” by Anna Sekula (December 12, 2010)

To continue the conversation taking place at TEDWomen, New York Women Social Entrepreneurs hosted a roundtable following the conclusion of TEDx636EleventhAve on Wednesday night, with the topic “Building on TED and the TEDWomen Conference: How Can We Make Conferences More Inclusive Spaces?” In addition to looking at alternative models that could complement TED conferences and add to the experience, attendees also spoke of the need to push for greater integration of women at all TED events. The topic has already been broached by many, including Salon.com editor in chief Joan Walsh, who was invited to speak at TEDWomen, but declined.

Nonetheless, Oberti Noguera is invigorated by the open forum TED conferences and the TEDx program provides. “I hope that TEDx starts and continues to inspire TED, that these grassroots, bottom-led TEDx events influence TEDGlobal,” she said. “I’m looking forward to seeing what the conversation is now that TEDWomen is over and hear from the organizers who held a TEDx event around TEDWomen.”

"Would love to engage you in a movement to add #morevoices to conferences!"

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:23:54 -0500

“Would love to engage you in a movement to add #morevoices to conferences!”

- natalia Oberti Noguera (December 11, 2010)