From December 2021 - March 2022, NERC and partners offered a national – virtual – four-part training series on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) for those working in recycling and solid waste industries. The Trainings were free and open to anyone attending.
DE&I Training Partners/Planning Committee
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The Training series included presentations, discussions, and sharing of resources about:
DE&I Training 1 - Recording
DE&I Training 1 Presentation - Tamara Lundgren & Stef Murray of Schnitzer Steel Slides
DE&I Training 1 - Cheryl Coleman of ISRI Slides
Other Resources Shared: Employee Resource Groups
https://www.cmu.edu/hr/assets/erg/vp-erg-toolkit-2020.pdf
https://www.chezie.co/employers/resources/erg-toolkit
https://ditoolkit.org/articles/erg/
DE&I Training 2 - Recording
DE&I Training 2 Presentation - Willie Johnson & Nidhi Turakhia Slides
Other Resource Shared: Identifying Biases
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
DE&I Training 3 Recording - Part 1
DE&I Training 3 Recording - Part 2
DE&I Training 3 Presentation - Robyn Afrik Slides
Other Resource Shared
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Podcast: Equity and Inclusion in Ottawa County, MI with Robyn Afrik and John Shay
For more information on Belonging please consider reviewing these diverse views and recommended resources:
The Belonging Initiative
Why it’s Time to Drop Belonging from the Diversity Conversation (CQ)
Belonging Framework at Cornell University
The Value of Belonging at Work - HBR
Belonging: From Comfort to Connection to Contribution – Deloitte Insights
Other & Belonging Institute – John A Powell
DE&I Training Recording (English)
DE&I Training Recording (Spanish)
DE&I Training 4 Presentation - Berenice Garcia Tellez & Jose Luis Ramos Slides
A special thanks to the sponsors for the DE&I Training and NERC’s work on DE&I:
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