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, 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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• Ashley Lin, Manager, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, BSR
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Ashley Lin
Manager, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, BSR
New York
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Ashley is dedicated to managing the Center for Business and Social Justice and provides daily calibration and support across multiple demands and workstreams.
Ashley also supports companies in equity, inclusion, and justice, and advancing women’s empowerment through consulting, strategy design, research and analysis, and collaborative initiatives. Prior to joining the Center, Ashley supported industry teams in sustainability management with a focus on food, beverage, and agriculture members.
Prior to joining BSR, Ashley worked primarily in agriculture and distribution, food service management and hospitality. It is here she discovered her passion for social impact work as she developed programs to alleviate hunger for high-risk youth and increase access to basic needs.
Ashley holds a M.P.S. and B.S. from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in association with Syracuse University, with her Master’s focus in Sustainable Development and her Bachelor’s in Environmental Law and Policy. Ashley also holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies of Sustainable Enterprise from Syracuse University.
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• Alisha Thompson, Manager, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, BSR
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Alisha Thompson
Manager, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, 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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