To the Body.io group,
The murders of unarmed Black folks—together with these of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks—are horrendous crimes which have moved us to do extra to struggle racism and injustice. Black lives matter.
We’re dedicated to influencing how the media and tech industries, traditionally missing in range, assist underrepresented teams. The struggle for justice and the precise to be handled equally are causes we join with deeply as people, and we’ve woven that into the material of our firm’s beliefs. We acknowledge that we are able to do far more and that this work must be ongoing.
Our Variety & Inclusion Core Staff—composed of numerous members from each division—shapes our mission at Body.io, and within the wider group, to offer folks of numerous backgrounds, identities, expressions, and talents equal alternative to create.
During the last two weeks, the workforce has been engaged on a number of plans and actions to assist assist the Black group and the Black Lives Matter motion.
- Juneteenth, or June nineteenth, will now be an annual Day of Motion for all Body.io workers. Our places of work might be closed and we’ll coordinate teams to protest, contact native elected officers, assist petition drives, donate, and extra.
- We’re committing to filling 50 % of all incoming administration and management roles with underrepresented teams, together with Black folks, girls, and different minorities.
- Inside the subsequent 30 days, all workers will start the primary section of an intensive Ally Coaching curriculum. New workers might be required to finish the coaching inside 90 days of beginning at Body.io.
- Inside the subsequent 90 days, we’ll launch a mentorship program for Ok-12 college students from underrepresented teams fascinated with media and tech. We will even proceed to work with native organizations that assist underrepresented teams to supply assets and coaching for college kids.
- We’re re-examining and increasing our unconscious bias coaching proper now. A part of this consists of an extra session for managers, explicitly associated to fairness in worker growth.
- We’re dedicated to studying and energetic reflection. To assist present context and a basis for ongoing anti-racism conversations, each worker might be receiving one of many following books (bought from a Black-owned native bookstore). We’ll proceed structured discussions round them.
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Hearth Subsequent Time by James Baldwin
- The Coloration of Legislation by Richard Rothstein
- As a part of our dedication to growing the various expertise pipeline that we need to see within the trade, each worker has a private growth fund that can be utilized towards workshops, programs, conferences, and anything that contributes to each their skilled and private progress. We might be surfacing much more alternatives for our workers to reap the benefits of.
- We’ll proceed to host inner and exterior Variety & Inclusion programming that facilitates significant conversations and actions.
- We’ve got began a full-company All-Palms assembly devoted to Variety & Inclusion. This discussion board is an area for workers to obtain updates on targets and ongoing initiatives, in addition to to take part in an change of concepts and actions.
- We’re proactively encouraging all of our workers to take break day to do no matter is necessary to them as people—whether or not it’s to protest, vote, volunteer, study, or recharge.
We’ll proceed to hear, to study, and to uplift Black voices and tales. And we are going to proceed to search out new and significant methods to assist reshape the world round us for the higher.
In solidarity,
Emery Wells, CEO
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