As leaders who care about diversity, equity, and inclusion, how do we understand and respond to the recent supreme court ruling on affirmative action, movements in states like Florida and Texas to ban DEI initiatives at public universities, and the widespread layoffs of DEI professionals from companies who only 2 years earlier were proclaiming long-term commitment to this work?
How might we finally transcend the historical patterns of struggle, conflict and "us versus them” mentality?
As leaders, we have the opportunity lead our organizations and communities into a new era where we can work toward justice and equity for all, together. We can take accountability for our role in perpetuating harm and work towards real repair. We can call people into our movements, rather than calling them out.
Join Mallory and Rivka from the Inheritance Project team for a thought-provoking conversation about the current state of our society and DEI work, and what it means to lead in this moment.
We are not experts and don't have all the answers, but we believe in the power of dialogue, in exploring different perspectives, and in each individuals' power to lead change. Please bring your thoughts, questions and reflections to enrich the conversation!
At the end of this event, we will be making a big Inheritance Project announcement and giving a special gift gift of gratitude to all who register and participate in the conversation.
The session will be recorded and the recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
MEET YOUR FACILIITATORS
ABOUT RIVKA
Rivka Rivera (she/her) is an award-winning Jew-Yo-Rican actor, playwright, filmmaker, educator and facilitator. Over the past six years, Rivka has been co-developing and facilitating a project called “To Protect, Serve and Understand” at Irondale Theater where she also is a board member. This program brings together community members and police officers for improvisational theatre training — learning and applying the tools of the actor in order to be heard, and bear active witness to others’ perspectives.
Her artistic work explores the intersection of grief, capitalism, and human behavior and seeks to highlight the complex nuances that make being alive so damn spectacular. A Brooklyn native, Rivka attended LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts (the Fame school) and earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has a long history as an arts organizer, educator, and producer. In 2012 she co-founded and ran Towne Hall, a non-profit warehouse space in downtown Los Angeles, dedicated to providing a community venue for artists of all professional levels and socioeconomic means to create, connect, and share. Rivka also proudly serves as the associate director at the Florence Belsky Charitable Foundation whose mission is to help multiple generations empower each other’s success.
Read more about her: http://www.rivkarivera.com
ABOUT MALLORY
Mallory Combemale is a facilitator, ethnographer, strategy consultant, experience designer and co-founder of the Inheritance Project. She has worked with diverse groups including C-Suite executives from Fortune 100 companies, non-profits, city government agencies, public schools and start-up founders. Her facilitation experience ranges from addressing community race relations through the Sustained Dialogue process to working at the Deloitte Greenhouse designing and facilitating highly customized executive workshops on strategy, innovation, organizational transformation, and team effectiveness.
Mallory also has deep experience guiding personal healing and transformation. She is a 500-Hr certified yoga teacher specializing in breathwork and meditation. Through Breath Connection, she empowers leaders with scientifically supported breath practices to improve leadership skills such as emotional intelligence, creativity, collaboration, and resilience.
A Singaporean-French-American citizen raised in London, Mallory has always been fascinated with identity and facilitating cross-cultural understanding. She is passionate about leaders with the skills and self-awareness to lead in a diverse, global, and uncertain future.
ABOUT INHERITANCE PROJECT
Inheritance Project facilitates innovative leadership, inclusion and community-building programming through the lens of inheritance.
A new definition of Inheritance (n): ancestry, culture, beliefs, values, social conditions, stories, traits and perspectives received from past generations.
Your inheritance is more than the physical items passed from one generation to the next. It is the accumulation of all your unique lived experiences that shape how you live, think, and connect with others.
Inheritance Project’s mission is to heal divides and empower teams and communities to become spaces of belonging, where every individual can thrive, by expanding our understanding of our individual and shared inheritance.
Learn more: www.inheritanceproject.org