Equity is our endgame.
Registration for the 2024 Career Equity Conference is live! Join us on Friday, November 22nd in downtown Boston for a day of transformational sessions and workshops. Our early-bird discount will run throughout the summer with discounted tickets priced at $125 each.
Registration includes access to all conference programming and a catered luncheon. Contact our team if you have any questions.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2024 in BOSTON, MA
Do you believe in creating and sustaining a welcoming and inclusive workplace through equity? The Career Equity Conference invites you to elevate your work in diversity, equity, and inclusion through meaningful action and education.
This event offers the opportunity to expand your understanding of what it takes to foster and maintain and inclusive workplace while making connections with key decisionmakers and thought leaders in higher education, human resources, employee engagement, and community engagement. No matter how far you are in this work, the Career Equity Conference is a transformative starting point.
As a conference attendee you will have an opportunity to:
- Develop strategies to promote career equity in career education
- Better understand how to recruit, retain, and promote diverse talent
- Increase knowledge on practices that improve access and equity
- Connect with a community of equity minded practitioners in the workplace
- Learn how to build accountability into the process for teams and systems
In offering this conference each year, our center strives to build a community of equity-minded practitioners focused on expanding inclusion in the experience and outcomes of our students.
OUR 2024 THEME: STANDING YOUR GROUND: AMPLIFYING COMMITMENT TO CAREER EQUITY & INCLUSION AMIDST CHALLENGES
Diversity, equity & inclusion has experienced its fair share of challenges throughout the past decade. As legal conflicts and financial drawbacks surmount, we hope to affirm Suffolk and our partners’ commitment to this work through meaningful presentations, trainings, and discussions.
OUR 2024 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
SEGUN IDOWU, Chief of Economic Opportunity & Inclusion
for the City of Boston
A lifelong resident of Boston, Segun is a proud product of the Boston Public Schools. Following his graduation from Boston Latin Academy, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in History at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and honors from the Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key Societies.
In April 2020 and 2021, Boston Magazine recognized Segun as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the City of Boston.” In July 2020, the Boston Globe recognized him on the front page of their Sunday edition as a “Man of the Moment” for his work in ramping up The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts’ (BECMA) efforts to advocate for and direct resources to Black businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Globe also honored him as a “Bostonian of the Year” later that December. In 2021, Lawyers for Civil Rights recognized Segun as their “Keeper of the Flame,” and Eastern Bank recognized him as their “2021 COVID Warrior.”
Segun stepped down from his role as BECMA’s CEO in December 2021 in order to join the Wu Administration as the Chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, beginning this role on January 3, 2022. In this new position, he is focused on making Boston a resilient, economically equitable, and vibrant city that centers people and creates opportunities to build generational wealth for all communities.
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