Community Voices: Diving into DEI

In this Community Voices roundtable, leaders share their DEI best practices and advice for other community recreation facilities.

Leaders from the community recreation industry share their DEI best practices and advice for other facilities.

Included in this topic:

– What DEI efforts are working for facilities.
– How to move past performative DEI to address real issues and create lasting change.
– How to communicate your efforts towards justice, equity, diversity and inclusion to members.
– How to measure or track efforts to create more inclusive and accessible environments for all identities.

Community Voices panelists include:

-Rob Rodriguez, the director of marketing and social responsibility for the Burbank Community YMCA

-Rodrigua Ross, the vice president of DEI at the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas

-Glen Gunderson, the president for the YMCA of the North