Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
As we find ourselves at a tipping point we must all take action and unpack together to move justice from being an idea to the authentic culture. Led by Britt Hawthorne, this session shares a framework for white professionals to understand what it truly means to be anti-racist and offer actionable steps to make changes immediately by using the pyramid of accountability. She also discusses ways Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and People of Color can empower and advocate for themselves in the workplace when racism strikes. Following her presentation, Britt is joined by Ellen McGirt, senior editor from FORTUNE, for a thought-provoking conversation to explore systemic understanding and education. This session helps us challenge racism and bias each and every day and prepare us to work toward justice.
An award-winning journalist, and covers race, culture and leadership in a daily column for Fortune called "RaceAhead". Her reporting has taken her inside the C-Suites of Facebook, Nike, Twitter, Intel, Xerox and Cisco; on the campaign trail with Barack Obama, and across Africa with Bono to study breakthrough philanthropy. In the past, she’s written for Time, Money and Fast Company, where she wrote or contributed to more than twenty cover stories. Back when the web was young, she was the founder of a financial website for women called "Cassandra’s Revenge," and established similar sites for AOL and Oxygen Media. Ellen was the lead editor for Your First Leadership Job, a book published by Wiley in 2015. She attended Brown University and is on the board of L’Ecole de Choix, an elementary school in Mirebalais, Haiti.
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A nationally recognized anti-bias/anti-racist teacher-educator. Britt partners with action-orientated educators, helping them to plan their next steps for creating classroom environments that are inclusive and equitable for all learners. Her work seeks to move justice from being an idea to the accepted culture. Britt is the co-creator of the Instagram #antiracistbookclub and the co-founder of ABAR at School.
The Global Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Workforce Development programs at State Street Corporation. Prior to joining State Street, Paul was a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Foster & Francisco LLC, an executive search and diversity consulting firm. Before Foster & Francisco, Paul led recruitment, consulting and relationship management functions at Bank of America, as well as Fidelity Investments, respectively. Early in his career he led recruitment efforts at Amica Mutual Insurance, and The Gillette Company.
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