Dr. Hayley Haywood from Elevating Access joins us once again for this year's upcoming Career Equity Conference! Dr. Haywood will facilitate a session titled Building Equitable Pathways to Soulfilling Work: The Anti-Racist Career Center.
With attacks on DEI, navigating poly global crises, resource constraints, and constant hits on our global humanity, it is critical that we redesign career centers to meet the needs of today’s diverse students. Data is already demonstrating how the destruction of affirmative action has hurt enrollment rates of students of color. DEI can no longer be treated as an add-on, it must be centered in our work. Career centers can either play a role in disrupting or doubling-down on white supremacy. Without a proactively antiracist lens, it’s the latter. In this session, I will share key data, identify common practices that may be harming your students of color, & introduce critical frameworks to help you design for racial equity. The session will be most useful to administrators, career services staff, faculty, and nonprofit leaders who could benefit from sharpening their equity lens, & advancing their ability to apply equity in action.
Dr. Hayley Haywood (she/her) is an award-winning DEI leader, identity-conscious coach, and consultant. After 15 years leading across diverse areas of higher education, she founded Elevating Access, a capacity-building consultancy that partners with educators and employers build equitable pathways to soul-filling work. Dr. Haywood has consulted with diverse organizations from NASA to Northeastern University. She provided equity-centered coaching and professional development to over 900 executives, educators, and students drawing from her interdisciplinary background leadership development, organizational design, and equity work. Through intentional strategy, Dr. Haywood’s programs have increased retention of students, employees, and faculty of color, nurtured sense of belonging, and enhanced team capacity to contribute to an equity-centered community. Her work has been featured in Inside Higher Ed, the local news, HigherEdJobs, and MaxBlack Media. This year, she was honored as one of Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. Dr. Haywood’s experience is informed by content expertise obtained through learning from her community and formal education including a psychology degree from Clark University, a Master's in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Maryland College Park, and a Doctorate in Organizational Change and Leadership through the University of Southern California where she studied the college-to-career transitions of first-generation college graduates of color. She also spends way too much time on LinkedIn and would be happy to connect there! #sucareerequity
