Twenty-third International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations

Abstract

One of the greatest enduring fallacies around EDI is that corporate is the enemy of activism. The issue with that level of thinking and perception is that we come to institutionally normalize a reality where financial autonomy, economic self-determination, and generational wealth creation aren’t the baseline of social activism as we know it. Money, profits, and capitalization are always unpotentialized when it comes to most companies’ and activists’ approach to EDI. The reality is, most activistic and corporate leaders conflate EDI with charity when it comes to figuring out what the best economic model for EDI actually is. In this high-impact workshop presentation Ches breaks down all the toxic lies, myths, and limitations we’ve been institutionally fed that keep corporate and activism apart from each other in spaces where they are both needed the most.