This event is sponsored by Northstar Asset Management
We associate white supremacy with violent hate groups that espouse white separatist ideologies, yet we fail to consider how American culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-white people. The constant stress of dealing with racism takes a toll on Black people and is known as weathering. Weathering results in the premature biological aging of Black people, and is also associated with poor health outcomes in Black people, including disproportionately high death rates from chronic conditions such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer as well as emotional and psychological disorders
As our country becomes more racially diverse, we have to reimagine a world where our differences inform and strengthen an organization’s work. Diversity fundamentally improves an organization’s functioning and is becoming a prerequisite for a high achieving company. Research shows that diversity is linked to better outcomes, though we also know that diversity without belonging can be detrimental to an organization’s performance. During this hour, we want to explore and discuss the most effective ways to dismantle white supremacy culture in order to achieve racial equity and belonging.
Questions to Consider
How do you identify white supremacy culture? What does it mean to be a white supremacist? What is the difference between white supremacy and white privilege?
How should I think about the inherent conflicts of supporting a white supremacist for a leadership position in an organization?
How is my silence regarding issues related to race enabling white supremacy culture? When have I been silent? Were those situations overtly racist or subtly so? Have I noticed situations in my workplace in which the culture, history, or actions of non-white colleagues seemed to be demeaned or discounted?
Webinar Information
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 9th
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm ET
This event will be held on Zoom. Your webinar link will be sent the morning of the event from events@hbsab.org. If you do not receive this email, please contact jason@hbsab.org.
Pricing: HBS Association of Boston Member - Complimentary
Non Member - $15
Moderator: Julie Goodridge, Founder & CEO of NorthStar Asset Management
Speakers: Beth Chandler, CEO of YW Boston
Dr. Tema Okun, Racial Justice and Equity Facilitator and Coach
Julie Goodridge
Founder & CEO - Northstar Asset Management
Event Moderator
Julie has worked in the investment industry since 1983, including her role as an early member of the Social Investment Forum (now US SIF) in 1984. Julie launched NorthStar Asset Management in 1990, an investment company with an exclusive focus on socially responsible investing (SRI). Through direct interaction with clients and with the Investment Team, Julie provides financial planning expertise, drives major investment decisions, and provides guidance and direction for NorthStar’s shareholder activism work.
Julie was the lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking case Goodridge v. Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health (2003), which won equal marriage rights for same sex couples in Massachusetts, the first state in the U.S. to do so. She has appeared on CNBC, WGBH, NECN, Bloomberg, and all major networks discussing shareholder activism, equal marriage, and SRI. Julie has received awards from the Human Rights Campaign, the Boston Women's Fund, the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the Harvard University LGBT alliance. In 2014, Julie was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance by American Banker Magazine, and in recognition of her broad reaching and trailblazing commitment to social justice, Julie was inducted into YW Boston’s Academy of Women Achievers in 2019.
Julie serves as a Trustee for the Hyams Foundation in Boston, a foundation focused on racial justice in Boston. Julie is also a former Chairwoman of the Board of the New World Foundation where she recently concluded a 17-year tenure and served in roles including Treasurer and Vice-Chair.
Julie holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a BA from Boston University.
Beth Chandler
CEO - YW Boston
Beth Chandler joined YW Boston in November 2012, with more than 20 years of experience in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. In August 2018, she was appointed President & CEO. Her breadth of work experience encompasses program development, delivery and evaluation, business development, and operations.
Prior to working at YW Boston, Beth served as vice president at the Achievement Network, a national non-profit dedicated to helping urban public and charter schools close the achievement gap. Beth also held positions at Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation, the largest funding source for civil legal aid programs in the Commonwealth and Neighborworks America, one of the country’s preeminent leaders in affordable housing and community development.
Beth also worked as a corporate banking associate with Bank of America and began her career as a research and evaluation analyst with the Urban Institute.
Currently, Beth serves on the Eastern Bank Board of Advisors, The Museum of Fine Arts Board of Advisors, TSNE-MissionWorks Board of Directors, the Women’s Workforce Advisory Council and the Leadership Circle of Hope Central Church.
A former professional basketball player, Beth received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. YWBoston Beth Chandler
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-chandler-628358/
Dr. Tema Okun
Racial Justice and Equity Facilitator and Coach
Tema Okun has spent over 30 years working with and for organizations, schools, and community-based institutions as a trainer, facilitator, and coach focused on issues of racial justice and equity. Dr. Okun currently co-leads the Teaching for Equity Fellows Program at Duke University, which works with faculty seeking to develop stronger skills both teaching about race and racism and across lines of race, class, and gender. She was a member of the Educational Leadership faculty at National Louis University in Chicago and has taught undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level students in educational leadership and education. She is the author of the award-winning The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don’t Want to Know (2010, IAP) and the widely used article White Supremacy Culture. She publishes regularly on the pedagogy of racial and social justice. Tema is a participant in the Living School for Action and Contemplation and a member of the Bhumisphara Sangha under the leadership of Lama Rod Owens. She is an artist, a poet, and a writer. She lives in Durham NC where she is fortunate to reside among beloved community. Her current project is deepening her ability to love her neighbor as herself. She is finding the instruction easy and the follow through challenging, given how we live in a culture that is afraid to help us do either or both.