Committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging: Aligning Communications to Our Values
Thursday, Jan. 23
7-8:15 PM ET
virtual event; open to the all mentees, mentors & members;
open to both current & prospective IVDEIB committee members
Please join us for the next Committee Meeting of Intersectional Voices in Diversity Equity & Inclusion (IV DEIB) where we’ll be discussing Girls Write Now’s values, and applying them to our communications.
You are part of a “360°” group of stakeholders, and we believe it is crucial to collaborate with you on key issues that impact the programming, community, and organization we share. Your knowledge, perspectives, and experiences will inform our decision-making.
At this meeting, we will discuss our plans to institute our values of trust, evolution, community, creativity , and expression. What do these terms mean to you and how do you embody them? As we head into our third decade at Girls Write, we want to lay a solid foundation for the next stage.
Then we will utilize these values to review and make recommendations on how we communicate as a community—with a focus on our primary platform Slack. Since Slack is a constant at Girls Write Now, our goal is to develop Slack Community Guidelines.
With a commitment to transparency and open dialogue, we know that your insights will ensure our values lead our communications. Thank you for joining us!
To attend this event, create a Girls Write Now account and register through the portal.
Meet the IV DEIB Team
Kathryn Destin
Kathryn is a nonprofit researcher and writer and also was the 2022-23 Editor-In-Residence for Girls Write Now. An only child from Harlem, NYC, Kathryn looks for community in many spaces centered on her interests such as cooking, comedy, Blackness, queerness and investigative journalism. She is a Girls Write Now mentee and is fascinated by film, media and writing as avenues for social advocacy and activism. As a young creative, she is excited to utilize various mediums to speak against injustice and share stories from marginalized voices.
Chelle Carter-Wilson
Storytelling is in Chelle’s DNA. Chelle (Rochelle)’s imagination is the lens through which she experiences the world. Like many children, life obtruded upon her dreams, and bit by bit, she forgot them. Her stories never forgot her. In the wake of a career as an HR executive, she evolved into perhaps the world’s most reluctant stay-at-home mom. She raised two children, trained a beloved boxer puppy, and in quiet moments, listened to the muse. She returned to writing and hasn’t stopped. A linguaphile and lover of the oxford comma, anything, in the form of a story can engage, inform, and delight. A grateful steward of Girls Write Now’s emerging creatives, she commits to never let any writer ignore a siren’s call.
This event is open to:
all mentees, all mentors, diversity committee members, GWN staff and program alum