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Inequity on corporate boards and particularly at the leadership level is a global phenomenon that must be addressed. There are many well intentioned programs targeting the problem but it persists. Are there new insights that can provide a path forward? Are there emerging strategies that demand exploration? This panel explores social factors that affect the diversification of corporate boardrooms particularly for Black women and provides new and meaningful solutions.
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00:00How, you know, how would you advise young women, young people of color to be able to map that strategy and map that strategy without losing who they are? What are some of your tips?
00:16We all have to define who we are, what we stand for, and I hope, which was one of my driving forces, how do I give back to my community? And there's so many different ways to do that. I was born in 1954, the year Brown v. Board of Education was decided.
00:40So I always described myself as a Brown v. Board of Education baby because although it took, you know, schools a long time to integrate, I went to a black high school and it didn't integrate until my senior year in 1972. It was such, it was the door that opened to opportunities.
01:03Now, at my high school, we used to have Save the Black School protests because we didn't want to integrate. This was in Greensboro, North Carolina.
01:11And we thought separate but equal was fine as long as the equal part worked. Our parents knew better. They knew if it was separate, it was never going to be equal.
01:22Yeah.
01:23We just didn't care.
01:24Day and go, kyun, you said I got that.
01:25Good.
01:26Go.
01:27No 손?
01:28Go.
01:29Go.
01:30Go.
01:32Go.
01:34Go.
01:36Go.
01:37If you stay and keep the faire,atch you and keep it going.
01:38Go.
01:39Go You do so.
01:40Want to check me out, please?
01:41Do you see the law on the other side?
01:46Go.
01:49Yeah, yeah.
01:50Yeah, okay.
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