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Yale Innovators Celebrated at Startup Yale 2021
Over three days, students pitched for roughly $125,000 in funding as they shared how they re innovating in health, sustainability, tech, and more.
Startup Yale 2021 took place from April 29 through May 1, bringing together eight events and hundreds of virtual attendees in a series of conversations and pitch-offs. For the second year, Startup Yale took place entirely on Zoom, with students from across Yale pitching for the campus’ biggest entrepreneurship awards in front of a live audience.
The event kicked off with a keynote featuring Porter Braswell (YC ’11), in conversation with Tsai CITY faculty director Anjelica Gonzalez and Tsai CITY student team member Jamal Davis Neal, Jr. (YDS ’23). Braswell is the founder of Jopwell, a platform that represents and advances careers for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals, as well as the author of
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A special “Big Ideas Night” is themed “Job Search,” with a panel of expert authors tackling such topics as resume-writing, interviewing and negotiating at a virtual event hosted by Random House via Zoom on Tuesday, April 13 at 8:00 pm (ET).
Participants will hear from Porter Braswell, author of LET THEM SEE YOU: The Guide for Leveraging Your Diversity at Work (Ten Speed Press); Katharine Brooks, co-author of WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? Job-Hunter’s Workbook (Ten Speed Press); Steve Dalton, author of THE JOB CLOSER: Time Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More (Ten Speed Press); and Kirk Snyder, author of FINDING WORK YOU LOVE: 3 Steps to Getting the Perfect Job After College (Ten Speed Press), in a discussion moderated by Antonio Neves, author of STOP LIVING ON AUTOPILOT: Take Responsibility for Your Life and Rediscover a Bolder, Happier You (Rodale).
The New Way We Work podcast launched in January, and over the last several weeks we’ve been looking at race in the workplace. We’ve talked to Racial Equity Consultant Dorianne St. Fleur about what companies get wrong about DEI; Porter Braswel from Jopwell about the myth of the pipeline problem; Code 2040 CEO Mimi Fox Melton about tone policing and white privilege at work and Dr. Courtney McCluney from Cornell University about code switching and culture fit.
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They each covered issues that are crucial to any company or individual’s progress towards addressing their shortcomings in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. In the most recent episode, we heard from Kelly Kirkley about how he’s experienced many of these issues personally in his career.
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BLACK ENTERPRISE will host its first-ever Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Virtual Summit in partnership with Toyota, AT&T, and Fidelity Investments on Thursday, Feb. 25.
This groundbreaking event will explore the renewed focus on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of Black professionals in corporate America. It will also examine how major companies plan to implement real change in their respective workplaces as well as the communities in which they serve.
The DEI Summit will feature candid conversations with corporate leaders on actionable solutions to address systemic inequities in corporate America and broader society. The one-day event will delve deeply into critical issues ranging from the effectiveness of corporate commitments tied to racial equity to white allyship in the workplace.