Thursday, January 15, 2009

Obama's Inauguration - 5 days to go

I work as the Diversity & Inclusion lead for my office. What does that mean you might ask? Well, Deloitte as a firm is huge on Diversity and Inclusion (as are most firms these days). Given the size of the organization, each office has a lead who is responsible to be the champion in ensuring that the firm-wide message is communicated to all the employees and that no person ever feels "left out" because of his race, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, living situation etc. This is a role which demands creativity and calls for finding innovative ways to celebrate the differences amongst all of us. Anyway, so as a part of this, we (me along with some of my colleagues who sit on the Diversity Council) are planning to create a three-five minutes video on the evolution of the Black population in this country - from slavery to Presidency. This video will then be shown at our next office wide staff meeting (February 6th). I guess, I have some work cut out for me on 1/20 then - must capture many relevant photos and videos. Thinking of interviewing random people on the streets and capturing their reactions. Any other ideas?

1 comment:

kautilya said...

Awesome!

The journey of Black America, from Rosa Parks to MLK to Oprah to Condi Rice to finally Obama who reached pinnacle of history is nothing short of spectacular.
This is one of the great stories America has offered the world. Something of an affirmative action template.
Great people all these in their own rights.
Such baby steps that were taken 60 years ago have reached a crescendo today as Barak Hussein Obama sets the stage for what can be described as the Moment of the century for many African Americans.

You are lucky to see it from such close quarters. Freeze those images. That's an investment you won't repent.