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Leading with Equity: How Companies Can Promote Social Justice through DEI

L. Simone Washington, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, BSR

L. Simone Washington, BSR's Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), shares four takeaways for companies on shaping a more inclusive world where all people have fair access to opportunities and activities to improve their lives.

To Combat Systemic Discrimination, Companies Need to Acknowledge Their Role

Salah Husseini, Associate Director, Human Rights, BSR; Aditi Mohapatra, Managing Director, BSR

How can companies play a role in tackling systemic racism and discrimination?

Why Company Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs Need Intersectional Approaches

Annelise Thim, Manager, Women's Empowerment, BSR; Victoria Reca, Manager, Women's Empowerment, BSR

As more and more companies develop, enact, and expand women’s empowerment and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, business needs to understand women’s diverse and distinct experiences and undertake an intersectional approach.

Climate Justice: How Business Climate Action Can Reduce Environmental Racism

Samantha Harris, Associate Director, BSR

This year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S. and revealed how crises disproportionately affect certain populations. Business has an important role to play in helping to bring climate justice and racial equity front and center while shifting the finance for the energy transition.

Investors Are Committing to Action on Diversity. Now What?

Marcela Pinilla, Former Manager, Financial Services and Impact Investing, BSR; Nandini Hampole, Former Associate Director, BSR

Amid a wave of societal commitments to action on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and racial justice, investors are stepping up commitments and vowing to intensify engagement with companies on DEI.

A New Social Contract That Enables Social Justice

Aditi Mohapatra, Managing Director, BSR; Dunstan Allison-Hope, Vice President, BSR

To address deep disparities and systemic challenges, companies will need to take new approaches that move beyond diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as primarily compliance-driven efforts, and transform these tools into strategic drivers to achieve social justice.

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Upcoming Events on DEI

Voting Rights and Business: How Your Company Can Take Action and Protect the Vote

Webinar | Wednesday Apr 21, 2021

Join BSR and our partners, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR), for a business briefing to learn more on the latest policy developments with respect to voting rights, both at the federal and state level, considerations companies need to make in response, and opportunities for your company to get involved.

Reuters Events: Transform USA 2021

Webinar | May 4, 2021-May 5, 2021

Reuters Events: Transform USA 2021 is bringing leaders together to share how they're executing strategy that builds resilience and delivers the sustainability transition. Join L. Simone Washington, Director of our new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offering, as she chairs Transform USA's DEI Keynote, which will discuss what business and industry can do to ensure a more just and equal society.

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