An International Women's Day Special: When Black Women Speak Event (1)
Tue, 22 Mar
|Via Zoom and Facebook
A Birthmark of Africa project - Enhancing the voices of Black women in the UK and throughout the African Diaspora. This event will explore contemporary biases faced by Black women in various areas of life, their origins, entrenched legacies and, identify effective tools which can be used to overcome
Time & Location
22 Mar 2022, 7:00 pm GMT – 23 Mar 2022, 10:00 pm GMT
Via Zoom and Facebook
About the Event
A Birthmark of Africa project - Enhancing the voices of Black women in the UK and throughout the African Diaspora. This event will explore contemporary biases faced by Black women in various areas of life, their origins, entrenched legacies and, identify effective tools which can be used to overcome them. We will explore biases that are found in the following areas: education, career progression, migration, travel, health, wellbeing, social mobility to intergenerational mobility. Aspects of intersectionality will also be discussed including sexism and racism alongside providing effective tools that may be used to overcome such biases.
PANEL SPEAKERS
Kate Peat
Speaker @CEO OF REAL INNOVATING HR
Presenting upon the biases faced by Black women within the sector of education, particularly those with seen and/or unseen disabilities, their origins and identifying effective tools which can be used to overcome these biases.
Lee Halliday-Davis