It’s been a busy summer and as we head into the fall, we are pleased to announce two significant steps forward in our DEIB work. As you may recall, the Re-Imagining DEIB (RTD) met between November and February and developed some key recommendations that centered in two specific areas of work: 1) Launch a DEIB Committee and 2) Establish a Director of DEIB. We’re pleased to provide you with an update and invite you to participate.
1.DEIB Committee Nominations Now Open! Over the spring and summer months we took the feedback from the RTD and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and developed a charter for the new DEIB committee. The DEIB Committee will meet monthly during work hours and will be facilitated by Dr. Shawan Worsley (of Mmapeu Consulting) and Damali Robertson, our new DEIB Director who will start September 11th. Please review the Charter and if you are interested or you know a colleague who would be interested in serving on the DEIB Committee, we are actively encouraging staff to nominate themselves or their colleagues. We worked to simplify the nomination form after absorbing feedback from the RTD process. If you want to self-nominate or nominate a colleague, please use this link.
2. LifeLong’s first Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB), Damali Robertson, will start Sept 11. During the spring and early summer, we developed a job description, broadly distributed the announcement internally and externally, and adopted a new way of screening and interviewing candidates with a DEIB lens. We held two panel interviews made up members from the RTD members and SLT. The finalists were interviewed by LifeLong CEO, David B. Vliet, who will supervise the position. Damali Robertson will start Sept 11. We’re excited to welcome her to LifeLong and a deeper email introduction will be coming soon.
If you have any questions, please contact Julie Sinai or Brenda Goldstein.