Press Release: Race equality in the workplace 2021, speaker line-up announced

Structural disadvantage, double consciousness and the post-Euros racial landscape: BFI’s Race Equality in the Workplace Summit 2021

An extraordinary line-up of advocates will speak passionately and clearly about how to tackle racial inequality, creating conditions for optimum inclusion and how to see past lip service and truly understand the ethnic workplace experience.

Alongside an award-winning panel of workplace race experts, attendees will hear from Ibrahim Mohammed, the boy who beat the odds to attend Cambridge and vlogged his experiences as an underprivileged student to over 130,000 followers. He will share invaluable insights about the ways in which UK employers can reach, motivate and empower prospective BAME employees.

Developed in conjunction with expert, commentators and practitioners, the intensive programme will feature plenary session, a mini masterclass in understanding privilege and roundtable sessions on becoming an anti-racist workplace, removing post-Covid barriers to workplace integration and learning how to be courageous and authentic.

“I’m again so grateful for the honesty, bravery and willingness to tackle uncomfortable issues that our speakers, and delegates, bring to the day,” said Elizabeth Smith, head of research and programming. “Last year’s event was an extraordinary day and we have taken this year’s programme to a new level of learning and collaboration.”

The speaker line-up includes the University of Westminster, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Freemans Solicitors, Macfarlanes. The NHS, Voice Media, Genesis Oil & Gas, West Midlands Combined Authority, Creative Diversity Network and ACE.

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