DEI Lessons Beyond The Bubble
This fantastic webinar was an opportunity to look to beyond public media to hear new perspectives and learn about fresh solutions. If you missed a chance to participate live in this conversation, the recording is now available to watch and share!
Public Media For All is proud to share insights from Terra Gray, Principal Transformation Consultant at Equitable Dinners Design Team, and Anzio Williams, Senior Vice President of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at NBC Universal Local. Terra Gray and Anzio Williams will share how they are implementing diversity, equity and inclusion in their work.
Many webinar attendees had questions about the educational series with Terra Gray’s organization, the Institute for Equity Activism. She kindly provided the following information:
“Over the course of six modules, participants will build a common vocabulary around racial equity and learn the history of both systemic racial oppression and successful communal efforts to disrupt it. The institute will also build the skills to create mutually beneficial partnerships, facilitate difficult and transformative conversations, and the ability to use story and the arts as a catalyst for social justice. After completing the six modules, participants will design and implement a capstone project in their community.
Participants enroll on a pay-as-you-can basis. Please see our registration page for more information. Whether you can pay or not, all are welcome. “
Pop Up Webinar
Join us Thursday, July 8th at 3pm ET for a pop up webinar that looks beyond our industry to draw applicable insights on diversity, equity and inclusion work in local media.
Public Media For All is proud to host this webinar with Terra Gray, Principal Transformation Consultant at Equitable Dinners Design Team, and Anzio Williams, Senior Vice President of Diversity Equity and Inclusion at NBC Universal Local. By looking outside of public media, we can find new perspectives, fresh ideas and innovative solutions.
REGISTER
If you have any questions for the webinar, please let us know by emailing us at contact@publicmediaforall.com.
3 Steps From Tina Pamintuan, KALW
We’d like elevate an opinion piece that Tina Pamintuan, General Manager of KALW and NPR Board Member, wrote for Nieman Reports about her experience starting as an intern at NPR and now serving on its board. Her insights about how to improve DEI at NPR, and ensure that public media truly serves everyone are insightful.
3 Steps Toward Making NPR More Inclusive and Diverse
KALW has also officially joined PMFA and committed to doing 10 of our recommend DEI action items. Thank you Tina and everyone at KALW for your leadership in this space!
VPR & Vermont PBS Join PMFA
Scott Finn, President & CEO of VPR, offered the following about why they decided to participate.
"This invitation to join Public Media for All could not come for a better time for VPR and Vermont PBS, as we merge into one organization this year.
Our mission and vision work is still in progress, but after listening to many diverse groups I can share one overriding theme: the desire for this new organization to be more inclusive, to live up to our promise to serve ALL people. To be a place that tells all our stories and where everyone belongs.
Our hope is that by joining Public Media for All, we can join with other organizations who are committed to this mission, and hold ourselves and each other accountable."
Alaska Public Media Joins PMFA
Ed Ulman, President & CEO of Alaska Public Media, offered the following about why they decided to participate.
“As dear friends manage their anguish, distress, and fear for loved ones in what has been an unending cycle of racist acts, violence, and death during our lifetimes, I feel deep sorrow for my friends and colleagues directly traumatized by atrocities committed by those in power. I am repulsed by individuals who fail to see all people as equal, worthy of dignity, respect, empathy, and due process under the law. I believe that words alone can not assuage our collective grief nor can these words eliminate the systemic racism that permeates American society.
Instead, we must act. We must do, with even greater vigor, what we are charged to do. Each and every day we must Do Democracy through the media and news we broadcast, program, gather, promote, and create.
Alaska Public Media journalists and producers make daily contributions in support of the Fourth Estate. NPR and PBS provide a national scope, context, and reach for our local work. Together, AKPM, PBS, and NPR strive to frame political issues, document social activities, chronicle history, and illuminate what works and what doesn't work, while providing a platform for Alaskan voices so that we can better represent all citizens. And, we speak truth to power -- hard truths as revealed through historical precedent, science, just and humane laws, and social data.
In everything we do, let us recommit ourselves to egalitarianism. Let's connect and inform by fostering civic engagement, education, public safety, and social justice. Let's fulfill our mission, vision, and values with renewed vigor.”