Ep 49: Kelli McLoud-Schingen on Creating a More Inclusive and Equitable World, One Step At a Time

SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE with Vinay Kumar

This week, we bring you a riveting conversation between Vinay and the brilliant Kelli McLoud-Schingen, a Global Diversity and Inclusion Specialist with over 30 years of experience. Kelli is the Vice President for DEI at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma USA, and President of KMS Intercultural Consulting. Specializing in healing racism, cross-cultural competence, conflict resolution/mediation, storytelling and inclusive leadership, Kelli is a TEDx speaker, and is co-author of 'Cultural Detective: African American', and a contributing author for Sage Publications on “Prejudice, Bias, and Discrimination”.

[07:16s] ‘The Bridge-Builder’: A journey

[11:00s] How has DEI evolved today?

[18:26s] 2020, a year of two global diseases: Covid-19 and racism

[24:00s] Action after Awareness: What are organizations, institutions doing today?

[35:00s] Healing racism from within the system

[42:00s] A better world, according to Kelli

[50:38s] RWL: Kelli’s recommendation to READ: ‘Caste’ by Isabel Wilkerson, and ‘My Grandmother's Hands’ by Resmaa Menakem

Watch Kelli’s TEDx Talk here

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