Understanding the Current DEIB Narrative
This session will create awareness of legislative and regulatory actions under discussion and inform participants about the potential impact these policies could have on their institutions and on the work of advancement. It will explore why some communities feel excluded from DEIB conversations. Finally, the session will help advancement practitioners learn how to foster an environment in our work where all communities and constituencies can belong and thrive.
Pricing
Early Bird Pricing
Ends May 12, 2023
$195 Member
$273 Non-member
Standard Pricing
Starts May 13, 2023
$225 Member
$315 Non-member
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Who Should Attend
- Chief Advancement Officers
- Professionals who lead DEI/DEIB efforts
- Talent managers responsible for developing strategies to attract and retain diverse employees
Meet Our Speakers
Rob Henry
Rob Henry has acquired extensive managerial and development experience during his 35+ year professional career. Currently, he serves as the Vice President of People, Culture and Talent. In this role he provides overall global strategy for achieving CASE’s vision and mission related to human resource, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and talent management. In addition to his portfolio, he oversees the CASE Europe operations in London. Prior to this role he served as the Vice President of Education for CASE and provided overall global strategy for educational programs including Conferences, Research, CASE Library, Diversity/Inclusion and Student Advancement. His initial role at CASE was the Executive Director of Emerging Constituencies (Chief Diversity Officer) leading initiatives designed to engage and serve selected U.S. and global constituencies with significant emphasis to increase advancement staffing needs including diverse populations, student advancement and the career center.
Prior to joining CASE he served as the Director of individual giving at Yale University, where he was responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive annual and special gift fundraising program, soliciting major gift donors, and managing the volunteer program for the Yale School of Management. He has also served as Assistant Vice President at the University of Connecticut Foundation and began his development career in multiple roles at Michigan State University. In each advancement position, Henry has significantly raised support and participation while simultaneously assessing the potential of the emerging market. This experience, coupled with his attention to fundamental infrastructure practices, has allowed him to offer training and development to global markets such as Africa, Europe, Australia and South America.
He was awarded the CASE Crystal Apple for teaching excellence in 2006. He holds a bachelor's degree in speech communication from Murray State University and a master's degree in communication and public address from Eastern Michigan University where he serves as a member of the EMU Foundation Board of Trustees.
Benjamin R. Fiore-Walker
Benjamin R. Fiore-Walker, Ph.D. (He/Him) is originally from Southampton, PA in suburban Philadelphia. Ben received a Ph.D. in neuroscience (psychobiology) from the University of Virginia, and has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. His research area of focus was in the development of brain circuitry as they relate to epilepsy and autism.
Ben comes to his position as the senior director for the Opportunity and Inclusion Center (OIC) after close to 25 years working in the diversity space. Before coming to CASE, Ben was the manager of the Office of Diversity Programs at the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, DC, where he had a broad mandate to develop strategies to build out relationships and initiatives from across the society in order to help ACS live into its core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect. Before ACS, he served as a senior managing director for diversity and inclusion at Teach for America (TFA), where he was responsible for devising and quantifying diversity metrics for TFA for the development of initiatives to diversity staff and corps member populations. Prior to TFA, he spent 19 years at the Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was the Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion. This work has taken Ben into many elementary and middle schools in underserved areas of the D.C. metro region, where he uses neuroscience to get kids excited about STEM fields and higher education.
Ben has written on and studied diversity climate in higher education and the workplace and is a firm believer that diversity & inclusion matters. Ben believes that even though heterogeneity is the key ingredient to success—with diverse teams being more productive and creative than non-diverse teams, it’s all for not if the members of those diverse teams don’t feel their differences are celebrated or valued. We need both, diversity and inclusion to reach our full potential.