“In a pandemic in the midst of a lot of social unrest, volunteering really made me feel like I was able to make a difference, to be a better person, and offer something of value to a very deserving nonprofit.”
Former President & Executive Director of iMentor Caroline Kim Oh talks leadership, career coaching, gender bias, and discrimination against the AAPI community.
We’ve seen people come forth and say, ‘I need to be a part of deciding what happens for my community.’ That is civic engagement.
It’s so important to make sure that [diversity and inclusion] is not just the people that we’re putting on the covers or the subjects of the story, but also the people who are writing the story, doing the interviews, the photographers, the illustrators, the team that are helping put it together.
As part of our series spotlighting remarkable Black nonprofit leaders, we speak with Lewis Spears of Kismet of Kings, a youth development nonprofit serving primarily Black and Brown young men from low income households.
If we think of volunteering as a vote with your time, as civic engagement, then we must do more to make it equitable for everybody to participate. Just like we would in an election year when we’re trying to turn out the vote, we also have to create levels of access for other forms of civic engagement for communities of color.
This moment presents an opportunity for businesses to defy expectations and meaningfully advance racial justice.
As part of our series spotlighting remarkable Black nonprofit leaders, we speak with Jerelyn Rodriguez of The Knowledge House, a tech education and career development nonprofit.
As part of our series spotlighting remarkable Black nonprofit leaders, we speak with Elizabeth Frederick of Avenues for Justice, a nonprofit dedicated to keeping NYC youth out of prison.
Growing up, there weren’t any women around me who had taken the same career path I did, but what they did do was instill in me a belief that I could aim high, and these Black women are still a part of my life and my story.
