Executive Leader | Equity Advocate | Founder of Porch & Okra Consulting Dedicated to creating inclusive, equitable futures and transforming work environments in the hospitality industry and beyond.
This week the second Equity at Work: Hospitality Cohort Launched supporting hospitality organizations specifically hotels who will undergo equity audits and develop equity work plans… examine culture, hiring and career growth, power dynamics, diversity and inclusivity and more. In this two year journey MiNO foundation will support Beloved and engage with cohort members to offer additional resources and address acute issues and wins. Amanda Seales posted this video this week and This quote below from Barbara F. Walters at the 9min35sec mark really was inspiring. Beloved Community is a partner of @minofoundation in this work to create better thriving workplaces in the hospitality industry. Beloved Community has the tenet that people change systems and the quote below echoes an example of this. Walters is referring and gives an example of what occurred in South Africa with choosing profit over Apartheid. Walters says, “The business community can also help address identity politics by investing in those communities that have been left behind by globalization and by free-trade agreements like NAFTA. In the United States, it was the working class that disproportionately suffered. Those are the communities that are the most angry and the most resentful today…Businesses can invest in better health care, better education and a higher minimum wage so that they create a group of people who are hopeful about the future and less vulnerable to the calls by extremists to burn the system down.” #equityinhospitality #peoplechangesystems #minofoundation #barbarafwalters #tedtalk #belovedcommunity
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1yThere will be nothing civil about it. Though blaming NAFTA is a bit of a redirect. If NAFTA didn't exist the auto industry would either have to move faster to greater levels of automation or be content with selling fewer cars. Mexico is a great place to export American goods from because Mexico has many free trade agreements. It's just not that simple.