ABOUT
Come join us for the first installment of the Black Can Crack Self-care and Wellness series: interactive workshops that will help transform your mindset and provide practical tips to identify and transcend toxic work environments.
OUR WHY
Blacks in tech often experience anxiety, alienation, isolation, racism, and general workplace toxicity. Yet, without access to the infrastructure to support healing, many cope by stuffing down the feelings, which in turns leads to resentments, dissatisfaction and burnout.
THE SERIES
This series provides a safe space for participants to share their stories and feelings, deepen their understandings of their coping mechanisms, and learn practical emotional wellness skills. The space is limited to 50 people, so get in quick!
Lakeisha Poole is an entrepreneur, workplace futurist, and community builder. Her company Talent Karma focuses on helping companies create inclusive work environments that naturally attract and retain talent while reducing long-term risk. An employment lawyer for 11 years, Lakeisha is passionate about making ethics and inclusion-focused leadership practical and tactical.
Joel A. Brown is the Chief Visionary Officer of Pneumos, a management consulting firm specializing in: 1) organizational sustainability, 2) leadership development, 3) cultural intelligence, diversity, and inclusion, 4) conflict resolution, and 5) executive coaching. Its unyielding mission is to “create organizational space which is dynamic, inclusive, and strategic.”
Joel works with a variety of organizations, including Fortune 1000 companies, civic associations, and institutions of higher learning to build consciousness, capacity, community, and collective esteem. Joel is a writer, consultant, coach, facilitator, trainer, and keynote speaker.
Daisy Ozim is the founder of Resilient Wellness, a public health startup designed to reestablish cultural medicine access for marginalized communities. As a board member for the Bay Area Entrepeneurship Alliance, she works to ensure access to resources and support for emerging entrepreneurs. She is a Commissioner for the Alameda Public Health Commission and her work is centered around decolonizing philanthropy, technology and public policy. Daisy also runs the Blockchain for Social Justice collective. A platform designed to promote education and access of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency for marginalized communities.
Kim Hess is a tech worker and cultural anthropologist/ethnographic researcher specializing in social justice and driving enhanced results for diversity and inclusion in the Silicon Valley technology sector.
As the founder of Blacksintech.org and Internet Anthropologist, she has served on many panels and community forums dealing with the lack of diversity in tech spaces and is currently consulting with companies and nonprofits to enhance opportunities for Blacks in the Silicon Valley technology sector.
