Equity + Inclusion | Rising Up Together - Trailblazers in Sports
ZOOM LINK - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84664806178
(ALSO WILL STREAM LIVE ON FACEBOOK @ATHLETESVOICES and on Sports on Facebook)
Join some of the greatest athletes, academics, business leaders, and philanthropists for a series of conversations focused on the most critical issues of 2020/2021 through a groundbreaking speaker series - Athletes' Voices, launched in 2020 in collaboration with Harvard University's Global Sports Initiative at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 | 5:00 PM ET - 6:30 PM ET (2:00 PM PT - 3:30 PM PT)
EQUITY + INCLUSION | Rising Up Together - Trailblazers in Sports
Join Athletes' Voices on February 25, 2021 at 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT for an important and timely discussion on the role athletes and sports play as champions for equity and inclusion, standing on the shoulders of those who came before them while lifting up the next generation of leaders for change.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A TRAILBLAZER FOR INCLUSION? EQUITY? TO STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE YOU ... AND THOSE WHO WILL FOLLOW?
This will be a provocative and action-oriented conversation, featuring trailblazing athletes who demonstrate the power of leadership around equity and inclusion, including:
Joel Ward | National Hockey League (NHL) right-winger; American Hockey League (AHL) Coach [Henderson Silver Knights]; co-founder, Hockey Diversity Alliance (HDA)
Michael Lahoud | Major League Soccer (MLS) and North American Soccer League (NASL) retired player and member of the Sierra Leone National Team; 2016 NASL Humanitarian of the Year; 2015 FIFPro Merit Award Winner; Founder, Schools for Salone
Don McPherson | NFL Quarterback and National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame inductee; Syracuse Football All-Century Team; Heisman Trophy runner-up (1987); speaker and feminist; author of You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity
Patty Cisneros Prevo | 2x Paralympic gold medallist and 10-year USA Women's Wheelchair Basketball team member; Assistant Director for Inclusion and Engagement at the University of Wisconsin; children's book author - TENACIOUS: 15 Adventures alongside Athletes with Physical Disabilities
Jennifer Southall | Women's National Football Conference (WNFC) running back/linebacker; ice hockey player; blogger; author; disability rights advocate; Oregon State Hockey Association - Disabled Hockey Representative
Claude Johnson [Event Moderator] | The Black Fives Foundation, Founder and Executive Director; author of Black Fives: The Alpha Physical Culture Club; contributing writer for ESPN/TheUndefeated; former executive with brands such as IBM, American Express, NBA Properties, Nike, Phat Farm, and Benetton Sportsystem
With this fifth installment of our Pitch for Change Speaker Series, Athletes' Voices continues to inspire impact and amplify athletes' voices as influencers around a wide range of topics, including conservation, sustainability and the environment.
"I want to continue to inspire and lead a generation, not only my colleagues but the guys underneath them, to feel empowered and realize that they're more than a basketball player and can be more than the bubble that people try to put them in.” - LeBron James (NBA Legend)
"Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I am doing for the next generation." - Vitor Belfort (UFC MMA fighter)
“People would say, ‘Girls don’t play hockey. Girls don’t skate.’ I would say, ‘Watch this.'” – Hayley Wickenheiser (Olympic gold medalist - ice hockey)
Pitch for Change has curated a fascinating group of influencers who will share their first-hand accounts, professional perspective and suggested action items around sports as a conduit for awareness around diversity, equity and inclusion.
Join us live on Thursday, February 25, 2021 to participate in the dialogue or visit https://www.facebook.com/athletesvoices for the encore showing of the Webinar.