Thanks to our panel:
- Lillian Graning is the vice president of corporate social responsibility at Live Oak Bank.
- Jamar Jenkins is the former inclusive small business coordinator for Live Oak Bank. He's currently a consultant.
- Dr. Donyell Roseboro is the chief diversity officer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
- Linda Thompson is the chief diversity and equity officer for New Hanover County.
- Malcolm Johnson is the chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for New Hanover County Schools.
Below: Video of our Cape Fear Conversations DEI panel:
Links
- Newsroom: Cape Fear Conversations: Black History in Wilmington
- Commissioners approve new diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist at Columbus County Sheriff’s Office, among other requests
- CoastLine: Harvard Jennings On Civil Discourse, The Still-Raging Civil War
- CoastLine: Bertha Todd, Former Williston Librarian, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination,2018
- UNCW’s definition of diversity, according to Dr. Roseboro, “Diversity represents the dimensions of human identity. It includes, but is not limited to, race, sex, age, color, national origin (including ethnicity), creed, religion, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation, veteran’s status, gender identity, educational disadvantage, socio-economic circumstances, language, ideology, and history of overcoming adversity.”
- WHQR’s Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy
- How a Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in 1950s America, “doll test” mentioned by Dr. Roseboro, Smithsonian Magazine
- Katrina Futrell, CTE Department, NHCS
- Newsroom: What we learned taking One Small Step
- Mary Alice Thatch, Publisher Who Won Pardon for the Wilmington 10, Dies at 78 (New York Times)
- Suggested reading from Lillian Graning