Member Webinar: National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2022

October 6, 2022 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT Virtual

DBP Member Event

DBP Member Webinar

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month with us! Join us for a program that will be equal parts inspiration and practical tips and tools to empower individuals, ERGs, and communities to do their best work.

This program will feature stories that amplify and uplift the efforts of individuals and employee resource groups working to support people with disabilities both at their organizations and in the communities in which they serve.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a live Q&A session with the speakers to gain the insights they need to further their own work.

- Employee Resource Group Leaders and Members

- D&I Practitioners and Champions

- HR and Talent Leaders

- Business leaders committed to advancing people with disabilities

After Erin Brown had a leg amputated following a cancer diagnosis, she has since become a Paralympic triathlon athlete and disability advocate. Her work includes consulting on healthcare and employment for people with disabilities, being the sole person managing disability compliance at the University of The Bahamas, and presenting to the United Nations, World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization as International Disability Inclusion Consultant for the Caribbean. She will share both her powerful personal story as well as key strategies of success from her extensive disability advocacy work.

Disability:IN’s Director of their Global Disability Equality Index will share insights from their global benchmarking tool which helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions towards disability inclusion and equality.

Sephora will share strategies of success from their All Abilities Hiring Initiative, a nine-week paid program leveraging local advocacy groups and educational institutions to train and recruit people with disabilities. Since launching in 2017, the program has provided jobs to 246 disabled candidates.

Please sign in to access the event archives. If you are not yet a Seramount member, please email us at [email protected].

Agenda

Erin Brown

President, Disability Inclusion Consultant, Erin Brown Connects, Disability Inclusion Consultant, Disability, Advocacy and Inclusion Management LLC

Pan American Health Organization and Disability and Compliance Officer / University of The Bahamas

Sarah Crump

Director, Research Development, Advisory

Sarah Crump is a director and membership relationship advisor at Seramount. Sarah joined Seramount after serving over 12 years at Freddie Mac. There, as a manager in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion division, she was responsible for building partnerships across Freddie Mac’s business divisions to actively educate and motivate employees on the benefits of an inclusive culture.

Sarah Crump is a director and membership relationship advisor at Seramount. Sarah joined Seramount after serving over 12 years at Freddie Mac. There, as a manager in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion division, she was responsible for building partnerships across Freddie Mac’s business divisions to actively educate and motivate employees on the benefits of an inclusive culture. She also contributed to her passion for neurodiversity hiring and support by rolling out the Neurodiversity at Work Program initiative.

Sarah holds a BA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a Senior Certified Professional through Society of Human Resource Management. She currently resides in Richmond, VA. In her spare time she likes to read, craft, travel the world and explore new cuisines.

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Dorothy Garcia

Director, Global Disability Equality Index

Disability:IN

Jessica Jolly

Accessibility Manager, Distribution Centers

Sephora

Jess Kramer

Associate Director, Event Programming

Seramount

Jess Kramer is Associate Director, Event Programming at Seramount, developing impactful live experiences that shift mindsets and accelerate inclusion. At Seramount, she leads the content curation and manages programming for Seramount’s annual member and non-member marquee events advocating for diversity, equity & inclusion in the workplace.

Jess Kramer is Associate Director, Event Programming at Seramount, developing impactful live experiences that shift mindsets and accelerate inclusion. At Seramount, she leads the content curation and manages programming for Seramount’s annual member and non-member marquee events advocating for diversity, equity & inclusion in the workplace. She determines program themes, designs and develops agendas, and identifies, secures, and preps 100+ speakers annually for Seramount’s virtual and in-person conferences that reach audiences of up to 2,000 people each across a wide variety of industries.

Jess is also a writer and public speaker on the topics of neurodiversity and disability inclusion in the workplace. Prior to working in events and management consulting, she worked as a writer, researcher, and editor.

Based in Brooklyn, NY, Jess enjoys live music, theater, and dancing; walking dogs at her local animal shelter; escaping the city to hike, kayak, and swim; and traveling around the world.

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George-Axelle Broussillon Matschinga

Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion

Sephora

Member Webinar: National Disability Employment Awareness Month 2022

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