Virtual Workshop: Unpacking a Social Justice Approach for Business in the Face of Strategic Crossroads

By Invitation Only

Date and Time

September 18, 2024
1:00 pm-2:15 pm EDT

Location

Webinar

In this virtual workshop, CBSJ leadership will dive deeper into tools and resources underlying the Center’s foundational Guide for Business and Social Justice. Following a landscape and guide overview, BSR team members will facilitate participants through an interactive exercise that aims to support peer dialogue and build a common understanding of ways businesses and their leaders can strengthen their social justice issue approaches in spite of the strategic crossroads at which businesses and their leaders now find themselves.

Scheduled Speakers

• Jarrid Green, Director, Inclusive Business, BSR
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Jarrid Green
Director, Inclusive Business, BSR
Washington, D.C.
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Jarrid is a director for BSR’s Inclusive Business Practice.
He supports leaders of global companies in their efforts to build inclusive organizations; navigate emerging industry and policy trends/flashpoints; and achieve strategic community and social impact. Jarrid also partners with philanthropic organizations including foundations and nonprofit intermediaries to identify opportunities to harness business influence for greater societal good.
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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Recent Insights From Jarrid Green
• New Research Reveals Strong Support for Social Justice by US Workers and Consumers, Challenging Business to Take Action / October 1, 2024 / News
• A Foundational Guide for Business on Social Justice for 2024 and Beyond / March 5, 2024 / Blog
• Exclusive: How Can Companies Engage on Social Justice Issues in Such Partisan Times? A New Guide Aims to Help / March 1, 2024 / News
• BSR Puts Spotlight on How Companies Engage on Social Issues with New Guide / March 1, 2024 / News
• Corporate diversity in the crosshairs after US Supreme Court ruling / June 30, 2023 / News
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• Ashley Lin, Manager, Inclusive Business, BSR
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Ashley Lin
Manager, Inclusive Business, BSR
New York
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Ashley serves as a manager for BSR’s Inclusive Business Practice.
She drives partnerships and collaborative engagements with philanthropic organizations including foundations and nonprofits to harness business influence to achieve a more just and sustainable world, with a focus on advancing gender equity. She also supports businesses in building inclusive organizations and navigating emerging trends/flashpoints through direct engagement.
Previously, Ashley managed the Center for Business & Social Justice, driving corporate engagement on social justice issues with a focus on public policy engagement and influence, which has now been integrated into BSR’s Inclusive Business practice. She has also supported BSR’s industry teams in sustainability management, particularly in the food, beverage and agriculture sectors.
Prior to joining BSR, Ashley worked primarily in agriculture and distribution, food service management and hospitality, where she developed programs creating sustainable food systems and addressed food insecurity and basic needs access.
Ashley holds a M.P.S. in Sustainable Development and a B.S.  in Environmental Law and Policy from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in association with Syracuse University, along with a Certificate of Advanced Studies of Sustainable Enterprise from Syracuse University.
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Recent Insights From Ashley Lin
• Six Actions for Business in 2025 Post-Roe America / January 16, 2025 / Blog
• Navigating US Election Uncertainty: A Call to Action for Sustainable Business / July 16, 2024 / Insights+
• A Foundational Guide for Business on Social Justice for 2024 and Beyond / March 5, 2024 / Blog
• Seven Actions for Business in 2024 Post-Roe America / January 19, 2024 / Blog
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• Alisha Thompson, Manager, Inclusive Business, BSR
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Alisha Thompson
Manager, Inclusive Business, BSR
New York
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Alisha works with companies across industries to strategize effective initiatives in equity, inclusion, and justice.
Prior to joining BSR, Alisha worked as a consultant at a workforce and economic development firm, where she focused on developing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives for a range of organizations, municipalities, and companies. She gained this knowledge through serving as a DEI Manager at an academic institution and a healthcare practice. In addition, she honed her skills in evaluation and data analysis while collaborating with non-profit organizations to showcase their community impact.
Alisha holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in English with a Writing and Literature Concentration from Pace University. She speaks English, German, and American Sign Language.
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