Crisis Conversations — Live From Better Life Lab (Session XXII)
Channel: New America
Date: 10/09/2020

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting virtually everything about the way we work, live, connect with one another and expect from our government, businesses, communities and each other. And it’s exposing the deep cracks and inequities in American society. We can’t go back. So what will it take to create a fairer future of work and family? That’s what the Better Life Lab explores every week. Join us on Zoom to share stories, ask questions and make sense of what’s so rapidly unfolding, and imagine together a better new normal.

Join us on Friday, August 28 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on women and leadership. At a time when Kamala Harris is making history as the first woman of color nominated for national office by a major party, why, after so much time and money have been spent on diversity initiatives, women’s leadership conferences and the like, are there still so few women in leadership positions in every sector, from politics to academia to business, particularly women of color? Join us as these women leaders and thinkers share from their research and experience about what needs to change to create space for more diverse women leaders and enable them to thrive, and why that matters for all of us, during a pandemic, a historic presidential election and beyond.

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Adrienne Penta
Managing Director at Brown Brothers Harriman and executive director of the Center for Women & Wealth

Ilana Fischer
CEO of Whisps, a growing snack company where 100 percent of the C-suite executives are women

Laura Morgan Roberts
Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and author of Beating the Odds and Race and Leadership: The Black Experience in the Workplace

Toni Irving
Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and former executive director of Get IN Chicago, where she led a $45 million social impact fund to reduce gun violence

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