It’s been an incredible month of learning and celebration. Even the box was thoughtfully designed to mirror the virtual backgrounds our brand team created to celebrate Black History Month. Each kit was filled with books, stickers, and other items to educate, inspire, and complement the Changing the Game theme. In addition to coordinating our speaker series, Zoom Soul partnered with our Happy Crew to curate and send special kits to Zoomies around the world. Game-changing speakersĭuring the first week of February, we were joined by tech and media innovators Akin Adebowale and Ousman Sahko Sow, founders of Blacktag, an interactive streaming platform that connects Black creators with audiences and brands.Ĭlockwise from top left: Zoom hosts Nicole Gray and Hailee Bastien chefs Craig and Shaun McAnuff.Īll in all, the Zoom Soul team hosted six hours of live programming attended by more than 1,100 Zoomies in total! A heartfelt thank you goes out to all our speakers who are changing the game through their words, art, innovation, and leadership. Members of Zoom Soul shared, in their own words, the planning process and purpose behind the events and activities celebrating Black history. “Changing the Game” with Zoom SoulĮvery week, members of Zoom Soul hosted conversations with game-changers in innovation, finance, education, and the arts who have disrupted the norm, to make a difference in the Black community. With this in mind, I’m honored to shine a light on the amazing initiative Zoom Soul, our ERG focused on the Black community, recently led across Zoom in honor of Black History Month in February. Our ERGs are partnering to bring new experiences and education to our work and personal lives. Part of our early focus internally has involved supporting our own employees’ efforts to promote DEI through the formation of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focused on our Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, women, and veterans communities.
RACING GAME VERSUS ZOOM IT BLACK SERIES
We’ve also used our platform to engage the broader community on issues like voter equity through our “ Zoom Where it Happens” series spearheaded by a group of leading Black women artists. Though still early in our journey, we’ve already had a chance to learn with amazing leaders and forge impactful partnerships, such as our Race in the Workplace series with TIME and our five-year, $1.2 million partnership with Claflin University, a Historically Black College/University (HBCU). It was never intended to be a moment in time, but rather the moment that marked a more intentional, strategic and long-term commitment to learning from each other, challenging our own understanding of DEI, and actively working to create a more equitable world - inside and outside of Zoom.
When we founded Zoom’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team last June, it was an acknowledgment of both the work that was already being done and the opportunities in front of us.
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