Nonprofit boards can be key leaders in advancing organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. But how do we recruit more diverse board members to our organizations? Why is it important to have diverse perspectives and life experiences represented on our board?

Please join us in a conversation about board recruitment and diversity with three board leaders from area organizations. Our panelists will share their experiences and their own paths towards increasing board diversity at their
organizations.

Panelists:
Patrice Lockert Anthony is the owner of Black Label Consulting and Coaching (BLCC). BLCC is engaged in anti-racism and racial equity work; they are not the same thing (one focuses on White Americans' false belief systems predicated on race, and the other focuses on Americans who are not white taking their rightful and just place in America). She sits on the Board of Directors for Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming, and Food Justice Projects (formerly GreenStar Community Projects). Patrice is also a writer, speaker, community advocate, and fierce seeker (and protector) of what moves truth and justice forward.


Christine Barksdale currently serves on the Board of the Community Foundation of Tompkins County as the chair of the Nominating and Governance committee. She has worked and volunteered as a facilitator around issues of race and equity. She is also a
local business owner.

Bridgette McCullough is a new farmer with the belief that agrarian culture is a part of her very being. Always deeply entrenched in ancient agricultural societies from Sumerians, and Egyptians to the Greeks, Bridgette understood early on that the true culture and society of the human is one with the bounties of nature. Her work continued to explore society, and soon after having a daughter, she embarked on expanding her reach and returned as a student to earn a degree in biotechnology and bioethics, and a law degree at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law where she focused her work on health, and wellness in the natural world. As a result of the legal scholarship at Northwestern, she started ACIRAH, and Farm by ACIRAH: A New Agrarian Society. Her work today combines her background and training in the creative arts, with the rigor of scholarship in the humanities as an art historian/scholar and the dedication of law and bioethics in returning herself and others to the most natural form of life for human beings on the farm and growing their lives and food for sustainability. She is a board member of Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming.


This event if worth 1.0 CFRE Credit.