MINORITY WOMENLEAD Virtual Conversation and Digital Conversation Series August 2020
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CALASIAN chamber of commerce MINORITY WOMENLEAD Virtual Conversation and Digital Conversation Series August 2020 #MinorityWomenLEAD We are thrilled to launch this year’s Minority Women Lead digital campaign and virtual conversation series. Now more than ever, it is important for us to recognize the diversity and inclusion that makes our organizations, institutions, and communities stronger. The California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce (CalAsian Chamber), the Asian & Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship (National ACE), and the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency are proud to collaborate in bringing you this series to spotlight and elevate the voices and stories of professional women of color from across the nation. Throughout the month of August, we will hold insightful conversations featuring women leaders of color and amplify their stories and unique perspectives through our spotlight series found at https://minoritywomenlead.com/. To all of you women leading the way, we celebrate you. Pat Fong Kushida Chiling Tong President & CEO President & CEO WELCOME California Asian Pacific National ACE Chamber of Commerce VIRTUAL CONVERSATION SERIES August 3, 2020 | 10:30 am to 12:00 pm PST August 13, 2020 | 10:00 am to 11:00 am PST KICK-OFF + WOMEN LED: MINORITY WOMEN THE POWER OF MENTORSHIP LEADING THROUGH CHANGE KEYNOTE SPECIAL REMARKS MODERATOR PANELIST: • Tracey Doi, Chief Financial • Congresswoman Judy Chu, U.S. • Emiliana Guereca, • Elizabeth Barajas-Román, President and CEO, Officer and Group Vice House of Representatives Executive Director, Women’s Funding Network President, TOYOTA Motor Women’s March • Maritza Davis, VP of Experiences and North America Foundation Social Responsibility, Sacramento Kings MODERATOR PANELIST: • Dr. Alice Huffman, President, California Hawaii • Cassandra Pye, • Fiona Ma, California State Treasurer NAACP Executive VP and Chief • Mona Pasquil Rogers, California Public Policy, Facebook • Dr. Natasha Lee, Past President of the California Strategy Officer, Dental Association; Member of the Governor’s Lucas Public Affairs • Margita Thompson, Vice President of Public Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery Affairs, California Resources Corporation August 21, 2020 | 10:00 am to 11:00 am PST August 28, 2020 | 10:00 am to 11:00 am PST CLIMBING THE LADDER BRINGING WOMEN OF AND LESSONS LEARNED COLOR TO THE TABLE PANELIST: MODERATOR PANELIST: MODERATOR PANELIST: • Moderator: Terrez Thompson, VP of Global Supplier Diversity, • Terrez Thompson, VP of • Sue Bhatia, CEO and Founder, • Sara Prince, Partner, • Rachel E. Cooke, Deputy Director of Coca-Cola Global Supplier Diversity, Rose International McKinsey & Company Communications, Sheryl Sandberg & Dave The Coca-Cola Company Goldberg Family Foundation • Sue Bhatia, CEO and Founder, Rose International • Lisa Chang, Chief People Officer, The Coca-Cola Company • Lisa Lee, VP of Global Culture, • Lisa Chang, Chief People Officer, Coca-Cola Belonging, and People Growth, DoorDash • Linda Shim, Executive Director of • Linda Shim, Executive Director of External Affairs, Comcast External Affairs, Comcast NBCUniversal • Monica Poindexter, Head of Inclusion & • Tina Wei Smith, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Diversity, Lyft Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders • Tina Wei Smith, Executive Director, • Mandy Price, CEO, Kanarys White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders • Melissa Thomas-Hunt, Head of Global Diversity & Belonging, Airbnb AUGUST 28 | VIRTUAL CONVERSATION BRINGING WOMEN OF COLOR TO THE TABLE Women of color are increasingly reaching executive level positions, but work still needs to be done to bring more to the table. Discover how companies and institutions are prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusivity and reaping the benefits. MODERATOR Sara Prince is a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Atlanta Office. Sara is a core leader in McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales Practice with 15 years of experience serving travel, transportation, logistics, consumer and financial services clients on growth strategy, commercial capability building and growth transformation. Sara has helped clients with a full suite of multi-faceted strategic issues and leads McKinsey’s Growth Accelerate practice which focuses on building individual capabilities required to deliver a company’s growth strategy and sustained impact. In the continued pursuit of helping clients broadly in the areas of talent and capability, Sara has co-authored McKinsey’s ground breaking series, Diversity Matters, linking financial performance and levels of gender and ethnic diversity in a company’s leadership team. The latest in the series, Diversity Wins, also frames the imperatives around inclusion. Sara has also published in the area of sales capability building and performance transformation. Prior to joining McKinsey as an Associate in 2005, Sara traded U.S. Treasuries on the Government Bonds Desk at Morgan Stanley. Sara holds an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Sara Prince Business at the University of Virginia, where she was recognized as a Shermet Scholar. Sara Partner, also earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in economics from Duke University. Sara lives in McKinsey & Company Atlanta, GA with her husband and their two children. AUGUST 28 | VIRTUAL CONVERSATION BRINGING WOMEN OF COLOR TO THE TABLE PANELIST Rachel E. Cooke is the Deputy Director of Communications and Co-Lead of More Voices at the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, the non-profit organization that runs Lean In & Option B. Currently, Rachel leads communications strategy to support the foundation’s initiatives that raise awareness on issues critical to advancing women at work, and building resilience in the face of adversity. Through the More Voices team, Rachel co-leads the foundation’s diversity, inclusion and equity efforts. Prior to joining the foundation, she was part of the communications team helping to deliver on Khan Academy’s mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Rachel developed her skills for advocacy and world-building narratives at Advocates for Youth, a non-profit dedicated to deconstructing harmful media narratives around young people’s sexual health and rights. Rachel holds a Bachelor’s degree from The George Washington University. A native of the District of Columbia, Rachel lives in Oakland and is still getting used to the earthquakes. Rachel E. Cooke Deputy Director of Communications, Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation AUGUST 28 | VIRTUAL CONVERSATION BRINGING WOMEN OF COLOR TO THE TABLE PANELIST Lisa Lee is the VP of Global Culture, Belonging, and People Growth at DoorDash, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing on-demand platform for door-to-door delivery. Lisa oversees Employee Connections, Diversity & Inclusion, Internal Communications, and Learning & Development, weaving together these four critical areas to create an interconnected strategy so DoorDash’s employees can do the best work of their careers. She joins DoorDash from Squarespace, where she led the creation of its first diversity and inclusion strategy. Before Squarespace, Lisa served as Pandora Media’s first Director of Diversity and Inclusion Strategies, where she led Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Experience and Marketing, Giving, and University/EDU programs. During her tenure, she built and executed Pandora’s overarching diversity strategy. Balking the norm, Lisa led the company to publish its workforce demographic data as one of the first ten publicly-traded tech companies to do so, and just three years later, was one of the few companies to publicly announce measurable diversity goals. Numbers aside, Lisa architected a winning employee culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion at its core, and it reflects outwardly in Pandora’s Lisa Lee business strategy. Pandora’s diverse and inclusive culture has been ranked as one of the top themes VP of Global Culture, by employees when asked “What do you love about Pandora’s culture and what are we doing well?” Belonging, and People Growth, Prior to joining Pandora, Lisa was at Facebook where she led initiatives in User Operations, Product DoorDash Operations, and Diversity Programs. She served as the publisher of Hyphen magazine, an award-winning publication about Asian American arts, culture, and politics and co-founded Thick Dumpling Skin, a positive body image community for the Asian American community. During her spare time, Lisa sits on the board of Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality and volunteers with Year Up. AUGUST 28 | VIRTUAL CONVERSATION BRINGING WOMEN OF COLOR TO THE TABLE PANELIST Monica Poindexter is the Head of Inclusion and Diversity at Lyft, leading the creation and execution of a holistic I&D strategy across the organization. She provides leadership, coaching and strategic direction to Lyft’s executive leadership team to implement functional I&D business strategies with the goal of attracting and developing diverse talent while demonstrating Lyft’s commitment to the diverse communities (riders, drivers and team members) Lyft serves across the country. She also leads the I&D Team responsible for executing Lyft’s Inclusion and Diversity strategy, internal and external Diversity events, conferences and partnerships as well as supporting thriving Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) across Lyft’s offices. Previously, Monica was Head of the Diversity Business Partners team at Facebook for one year, and before that, she