Diversity and inclusion in the media

For November’s meetup, we are partnering with Gateway Media Literacy Partners to host one of just a series of events that will be taking place during Media Literacy Week, where we look at the skills needed to think deeply about the media we consume.

We’ll be kicking off the event with a series of short lightning talks from some publications in the city as well as some community organizations. Then, we’ll have a 30-minute panel moderated by a member of the St. Louis Press Club followed by a short Q&A.

The list of panelists has been updated. Lightning talk speakers will be announced on Monday.

We’ll also be moving locations from to the Cortex, specifically the CIC@CET building at the corner of S. Sarah St. and Forest Park Ave. There will be parking available in the lot across the street for attendees. We will be in the "showroom."

There’ll be free food and drink for this event, please make sure to RSVP. This will also be the very last meetup of this year for ONA St. Louis. We’ll be taking a break in December and we’ll be back at our usual spot at TechArtista in January.

If you are looking to help us organize one of our monthly events, take on a leadership role with ONA St. Louis or just have questions or concerns about the event, feel free to email us stlouis@journalists.org

Speakers

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Natalie Clay is passionate about building more diverse and inclusive organizations and communities. Currently she achieves this through supporting BioSTL’s initiatives to build a more diverse and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem, and her company, Practical Diversity Solutions, which helps organizations translate best practices into actionable steps. Natalie’s chief academic interests are around the training, assessment and demonstration of cultural competency in student populations, non-profit organizations and public-facing governmental organizations. Her research on this topic has been featured at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education and in the book Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution. Natalie’s work has ranged from a consulting for Boeing Corporate Giving to project management for Beyond Housing and regional coalition leadership building an equitable tech-based start-up ecosystem in St. Louis.

Natalie received a bachelor’s degree from Hamline University in English and Social Justice, with a concentration in Black American Studies, and a Masters in Social Work from the Brown School at Washington University. Natalie is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs, and was a member of the inaugural class of FOCUS Emerging Leaders. Natalie is a member of the Coro Advisory Board and a founding member of GoodMap, a social enterprise platform for user-friendly online tools which helps nonprofit organizations find resources, connect to partners, and collaborate for collective impact.

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Dr. Ghazala Hayat received her MD from King Edward Medical College, Pakistan. She completed residency in Neurology and fellowship in Neuromuscular disorders & EMG fellowship at Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Dr. Hayat is Professor of Neurology, director of neuromuscular & clinical neurophysiology services and Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship. Dr. Hayat directs the multidisciplinary ALS clinic.

Dr. Hayat has been selected as Best Doctors in America in 2007- 2017.

Dr. Hayat has served as President of Interfaith partnership, Islamic foundation of Greater St. Louis, board member of YWCA, Pakistani American Association Of Greater St. Louis. She is the chairperson of Public Relations committee of Islamic Foundation Of Greater St. Louis. She has received Norman A Stack community relations JCRC, and Women of Achievement award 2015, YWCA leadership award and Interfaith Partnership leadership award.

Dr. Hayat’s husband Sultan is a Cardiologist, daughter Noor Riaz a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital, Son Jibraun Riaz is an attorney in LA. She has 2 grandchildren.

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Sherita Love holds a bachelor’s degree in Education Studies with a minor in Non-Profit Management and African-American Studies from the University of Missouri St. Louis. She supported student learning in the Webster Groves School District before moving into curriculum, program and staff development with YMCA Community Development Programs. There she served as Learning Labs and Science Gone Mad Program Director developing curriculum and supervising the staff and students in after-school math and reading sites at three local YMCA’s as well as two schools in the Ferguson-Florissant School District.

Aside from Sherita’s role as a director with the YMCA, she was a national trainer with the YMCA of the USA in Leadership and Diversity & Inclusion courses for professional staff. She served on the Multicultural Mentorship Committee with the YMCA of the USA and the Diversity and Inclusion Council with the Gateway Region YMCA where she developed the current model for Diversity, Inclusion and Global strategy for the staff in St. Louis and Southwest Illinois. She continues to serve on the board of the O'Fallon Park YMCA in St. Louis.

Sherita worked with Diversity Awareness Partnership managing youth programs like Give Respect, Get Respect (an anti-bias program), EXPLORE (STEM Career Immersion Programs) and the Diverse-City Art Competition. Sherita continues to lead diversity and inclusion trainings for schools, organizations and corporations in the region.

Sherita currently serves as the Founder of ExpandED Equity Collaborative where she works to close the education opportunity gap in collaboration with educators and community, as the Co-Founder of GLAMM (Girls Lead and Make Moves) to promote education and empowerment for young women of color, board Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair with AIGA St. Louis, advisory board member for Blessed Teresa of Calcutta School, and as a facilitator/consultant with STEMpact’s STEM Teacher Quality Institute, a comprehensive professional development program for teachers in our region focused on "stemitizing" classroom curriculum with Washington University.