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Disability Employment Awareness Month - Diversity of Disability: More Success with Inclusive Hiring

As part of Humber's Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion Dialogue 2022-23 series, Humber Libraries will highlight additional readings related to the dialogues.

On Tuesday, October 4, 11:00 am to12:00 pm, Jeannette Campbell, Zahra Brown, and Errol Cyrus join Humber for a talk on "Diversity of Disability: More Success with Inclusive Hiring."

Selected readings and documentaries:

Access Ability: Employers’ Lessons Learned in Hiring, Retaining and Advancing Employees with Disabilities by Marlena Flick and Rosemary McManus. 2022.

“The Access Ability strategy report synthesizes findings from research and roundtables about organizational inclusion of employees with disabilities. The findings reflect lessons learned by employers, by practitioners supporting employers, and by employees working to identify possible directions for improvement.” – Flick and McManus

Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win Through Structured and Inclusive Hiring by Daniel Chait and Jon Stross. 2021.

“Essential reading for every leader who knows that hiring is crucial to their organization and wants to compete for top talent, diversify their organization, and build winning teams. Daniel Chait and Jon Stross, co-founders of Greenhouse Software, Inc, provide readers with a comprehensive and proven framework to improve hiring quickly, substantially, and measurably.” – John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 

Hiring for Diversity: The Guide to Building an Inclusive and Equitable Organization by Arthur Woods, Susanna Tharakan, and Jennifer Brown. 2021.

“Business leaders finally have an appetite and urgency for driving diversity through their hiring practices, but there is significant lack in the strategies and resources to do so. Hiring for Diversity answers the need with the first comprehensive roadmap for diversity hiring. Based on Mathison's research-backed Equal Hiring Index and partnership with leading employers like Accenture and Wiley, the book provides the most cutting-edge examples of the policies and practices for inclusive hiring and gives leaders actionable resources for bringing the strategy to life.” – John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The Inclusive Management Strategy: Engineering Culture Change for Employees with Disabilities by Camelia Fawzy and Brenda Shore. 2019.

“Every person has the potential to contribute to an organization as long as they have access to the right opportunities and connections, yet it sometimes is all too obvious that the stigma associated with a person's disability can have a negative impact on their ability to develop healthy work relationships with peers and supervisors. This situation can only be remedied through effective change management, a systematic approach to designing, implementing, and measuring progress on unique culture-change goals.” – Emerald Publishing, Ltd.

Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change by Sandra Laursen and Anne Austin. 2020.

“A concrete, data-driven approach to creating institutions that foster gender equity. Focusing on STEM fields, where gender equity is most lacking, Laursen and Austin begin by outlining the need for a systemic approach to gender equity. Looking at the successful work being done by specific colleges and universities around the United States, they analyze twelve strategies these institutions have used to create more inclusive working environments.” – Johns Hopkins University Press

Building a More Inclusive Workplace. 2020. Streaming video.

“For the last several years, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has dominated tech headlines. Companies are beginning to understand that DEI is a vital part of a healthy and successful company. But in the wake of COVID-19 and the resurgence of the Movement for Black Lives, how will this work shift? Will companies stay committed to DEI? And how can we leverage the best practices of inclusion to create sustainable business practices in this challenging time? In this video, Nicole Sanchez—Founder and CEO of tech’s leading DEI firm, Vaya Consulting—will talk about where DEI is going next and how companies can move beyond rhetoric and into action.” – O’Reilly Media, Inc.

Speakers:

Jeannette Campbell, “is a passionate believer in the non-profit sector, and its ability to move the needle on awareness, opportunities, and education about disabilities and promote the inclusion of all members of our communities. She has 20+ years of demonstrated success providing service, program design, evaluation, and partnership development with educational institutions, service agencies, all levels of government, and private sector stakeholders.” – Jeannette Campbell

Zahra J. Brown, “is a Jamaican-Canadian, Black, lesbian, cisgender woman, who has two disabilities. She is hard of hearing, and she has a mild cerebral palsy. Zahra is often misgendered because of her gender expression. As a public speaker, she specializes in topics related to disability, self-advocacy, mental health, LGBTQ+ and more. As a former Humber College employee, 2016-2019, Zahra gained unparalleled experience co-facilitating several human rights trainings while also establishing herself as a respected public speaker.” – Zahra J. Brown

Errol Cyrus, “has over ten years’ experience working in employment and career counselling with people with physical disabilities. As an advocate for the rights of marginalized people, equity deserving groups and all oppressed racialized people, he was a former co-chair for the employees working group, at the Spinal Cord Injury Ontario EDI strategic task force and a former member of George Brown College’s anti-black racism committee.” – Errol Cyrus