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BCBB is partnering again with the Boston-Area Women in Bioinformatics group to present an impactful interactive series of programs on allyship across differences in bioinformatics offered by DE&I leader Trish Foster. The topics are vital to anyone wanting to become more inclusive in their work and with their teams. Since the programs build upon each other, we recommend attending all three, but you are welcome to join each event individually as well. Here are the details:

Workshop 2: How to Step Up as an Ally for Inclusion
Date: Thursday October 28, 2021
Time: 12:00 noon EST
Sponsor: Third Rock Ventures

Note: These are highly interactive sessions. We ask that you participate fully, with your camera turned on unless it is not possible.

Be sure to also register for the other two workshops in this integrated series.

Workshop 1: Making a Personal Connection with DE&I
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Time: 12:00 noon EST
Register here: https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Computational-Biology-and-Bioinformatics-Meetup/events/280689086/

Workshop 3: Leveraging the Power of Conversation for Inclusion
Date: Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Time: 12:00 noon EST
Register here: https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Computational-Biology-and-Bioinformatics-Meetup/events/280689151/

About Trish Foster (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trish-foster/)
Trish Foster is a sought-after diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) speaker, consultant, and workshop facilitator. She develops and delivers a variety of DE&I programs for organizations throughout the U.S. and internationally. Speaking engagements range from workshops and keynotes to panel discussions and moderated roundtables. Venues include major international corporations, early-stage companies, non-profits, conferences, and academic institutions, including MIT, Harvard Business School, and University of Chicago’s Booth School.

She has authored numerous DE&I research reports. Topics include: elevating allyship in the workplace; inclusive culture; intersectionality; disability inclusion; mentorship and sponsorship; gender equity and more.

Previously, Trish served as Executive Director of the Center for Women and Business (CWB) at Bentley University, where she led the center’s mission-driven work to create more inclusive organizations. While there, she guided strategy and thought leadership along with marketing and program development on behalf of more than 100 organizations, establishing a track record of exceptional client referrals.

About Third Rock Ventures: https://www.thirdrockventures.com/

Third Rock Ventures was founded in 2007 with a goal of building a premier life sciences company-creation firm to translate the explosion of innovation emerging from academia, science, medicine. We are driven by our mission of making a difference in the lives of patients and their families. Through our differentiated Discover, Launch, Build strategy, our portfolio companies are now Transforming the lives of patients by bringing therapeutics, diagnostics and devices to the market.

We invest significant resources to hire the best people at Third Rock and across the portfolio. We are a bi-coastal, multi-disciplinary team that brings together the best of science, medicine, business and strategy. With a focus of precision medicine, AI, computational biology and chemistry, as well as informatics are critical to achieving our mission of making a difference for patients.

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