04 March 2020 at 10:00AM
Announcement: Our D&I Program is now called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)!
PMI Rochester is excited to announce that our Diversity & Inclusion program is now renamed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)! If you have followed the Committee's posts or attended our Diversity events, you might know that language and words have a significant impact on not only how people feel about something or someone, but the actual reality of something or someone.
As such, we've taken seriously the discussions about including Equity in our name. Why is this important?
Wilson Lester of the Greensboro Community Development Fund says, “Equity kind of changes the dynamic where you create the opportunity for people from different backgrounds to be able to contribute at the same level, have power at the same level and be able to extract beneficial outcomes at the same level.”
Not only is it important to PMI Rochester that we have a diverse and inclusive Chapter and project management community, but we want all our members to contribute on the same level. This has been a goal since our program was started in 2017 - now it's in the name, too.
If you have questions or what to join our committee, please comment here or email diversity@pmirochester.org.
