Turning '21: How to be a Great Ally

How to be a Great Ally: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace and Beyond! with Keidrick Roy

Topic: Turning '21: How to be a Great Ally
Time: Mar 16, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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ABOUT KEIDRICK ROY: Keidrick Roy is a PhD candidate working at the intersection of American literature, intellectual history, and political philosophy. In particular, he examines slavery, abolitionism, and media history in the transatlantic world since the eighteenth century. Keidrick is committed to supporting ongoing community discussions about the history of race in America and to analyzing our present moment within its broader historical context. His public scholarship has been featured by CBS Sunday Morning, the Harvard Gazette, the Public News Service, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Review of Books, and the National Football League. 
He has served as an exhibition curator for the postbellum writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass at the American Writers Museum in Chicago, and he is currently curating an exhibition on the Nazi racial state for the Houghton Library at Harvard University, which will debut in 2022. Additionally, Keidrick is the executive producer of an upcoming documentary film on race and art in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
An Outstanding Academy Educator honoree as an Instructor of English at the United States Air Force Academy, an award-winning Teaching Fellow at Harvard, and a former military nuclear operations officer, Keidrick has received research support from the Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Pat Tillman Foundation, and Harvard's Center for American Political Studies.
 
ABOUT TURNING ’21:  This new virtual series is to answer questions for the community and the region. The theme is resilience – “the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.”  [Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities project.]   Attendance is free and open to the public but registration is required.   Turning ’21 is sponsored by Winter Hill Bank 
 
WHY SOMERVILLE?: Somerville is: the most densely populated city in New England; closer to downtown Boston than most of the City of Boston; and in the Brainpower Triangle of MIT, Harvard and Tufts.
 
WHY ’21?: In 2021, Somerville’s 4.2 square miles stand to be the leading edge of Greater Boston’s urban resilience. Few, if any, little cities in the world will see the incredible concentration of urban development in just 12 months as here.  In early 2021, Somerville will open a $256M high school.  During the year, Puma’s North American HQ will open.  Urban life sciences and mixed-use developments will break ground, while others will cut ribbons, in Boynton Yards, Union Square, McGrath Highway, Assembly’s Edge and Xmbly.  Brickbottom master planning will begin.  A new community path to Boston will open.  By year’s end, 85%+ of Somerville residents will live within walking distance of a mass transit station on Orange, Green, or Red line.  Somerville is best positioned to pioneer the region’s resilience frontier.  Let’s start today.