Working Together Towards (A Better) Tomorrow

As our firm prepared to create the 2024 Black History Month committee, I reflected on my thoughts, interactions and the messages I felt were not effectively being addressed in the communities we work and live in. I wondered how racial discrimination could still be so prominent in this day and age; how did I go from witnessing the discrimination my childhood friends faced to now advocating for my child who still faces those same injustices? We cannot continue to allow generations to pass with such little change; this pushed me to submit my thoughts to the committee and I ultimately decided to join. I had not previously participated in the committee and was not reading the DAIC emails regularly, due to the discouraging feeling that not enough was changing. With frustration growing around the lack of engagement and concern around whether companies and firms are doing enough to help delegate, I wondered how we could amplify the messages and efforts our firm has already