Advancing Racial Equity: The Challenging Landscape for Business

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

April 26, 2023
1:00 pm-2:00 pm EDT

Location

Webinar

Topic

Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

A looming US Supreme Court case will affect affirmative action programs in higher education and beyond. At the same time, there is a surge in state-level policy-making that negatively impacts employers’ diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. With these pressing issues as a backdrop, BSR will host an online dialogue for BSR members, providing an overview on the overall landscape as well as initial guidance on how business can take action to protect their workforce and to engage proactively on policy. Following the overview, participants will have an opportunity to learn about their peers' efforts to address this issue at their company and identify needed tools and resources for continued learning on this topic.

Scheduled Speakers

• Shalini Goel Agarwal, Counsel, Protect Democracy
• Richard Eidlin, National Policy Director, Business for America
• Skye Perryman, President and CEO, Democracy Forward
• Jarrid Green, Director, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, BSR
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Jarrid Green
Director, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, BSR
Washington, D.C.
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Jarrid is the lead of BSR’s Equity, Inclusion and Justice (EIJ) team.
As EIJ Director, Jarrid leads the development and management of BSR’s overall EIJ practice and serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Business and Social Justice. This includes the co-development of research, thought leadership, frameworks, and capacity-building opportunities related to corporate social impact strategies. Jarrid also provides collaborative oversight and direction for the center’s organizational and administrative functions, facilitates the execution of the Center’s ongoing corporate, civil society stakeholder, and donor activities including BSR member and external client consulting engagements.
Prior to joining BSR, Jarrid worked at Freedman Consulting, where he developed and managed strategic philanthropic initiatives, including donor coalitions and nonprofit initiatives focused on racial and civic justice issues, climate/sustainability impacts, and public health. Jarrid has also served in senior research and project management capacities at The Democracy Collaborative and The Center for Social Inclusion, where he led, supported, and published policy research and case studies focused on opportunities to dismantle structural racial inequities within community and economic development fields and practices.
Jarrid received his MBA in Sustainability from Bard College where he served as an inaugural member of the program’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Advisory Board and provided advisory support and instruction to first- and second-year MBA students in his role as a part-time faculty member for the college’s experiential-learning, sustainability consulting course, NYCLab.
Jarrid holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland. He is also an alum of the Council of Urban Professional Fellowship Institute.
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• Jen Stark, Co-Director, Center for Business and Social Justice, BSR
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Jen Stark
Co-Director, Center for Business and Social Justice, BSR
Washington, D.C.
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Jen is the Co-Director of the Center for Business and Social Justice.
She is a strategy development and implementation expert at complex health and humanitarian organizations with 20+ years of experience. She launched the Center in 2022 alongside Jarrid Green to illuminate a path for companies to shift from performative to transformational actions with a focus on public policy engagement and influence. 
Prior to joining BSR, she directed investments at the Tara Health Foundation to advance meaningful change among private sector employers on gender and racial equity, including historic progress on paid family and medical leave, reproductive health, and other workplace protections. Before working in philanthropy, she founded the corporate relations program at Planned Parenthood Federation of America to unlock advocacy, grantmaking and employee support to preserve access to reproductive healthcare nationwide. She also managed the disaster fundraising team at the American Red Cross, coordinating large scale efforts to responsibly raise and deploy hundreds of millions of dollars. She is frequently cited in business press on flashpoint topics and is an advisor to Gauge.ai, the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute, and GoFundMe’s Compassion Leadership Network. 
Jen holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is based in Washington, DC with her family, where she also plays cello in a community orchestra.   
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