On Monday 27 October, the RES Diversity and Inclusion Network, together with King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's Business School, and the Office for Institutional Equity (OIE), will host a virtual event asking: how do we move forward from the hidden barriers created by structural inequalities? Running from 1:45pm to 4pm, the programme combines a keynote conversation with facilitated, interactive discussions to examine this question in depth.
The event will open with a conversation between Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman – an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher and writer, and doctoral student at Harvard Kennedy School – and Dr Jummy Okoya, Associate Professor of Leadership and EDI, and Dean of the Office for Institutional Equity at the University of East London. Drawing on Opoku-Agyeman’s book The Double Tax, their exchange will consider how social and economic systems place unique and persistent pressures on Black women, bringing together perspectives from both the US and the UK.
Facilitated, interactive discussions will then form an integral part of the programme, providing participants with the opportunity to examine the themes raised in the conversation between Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Dr Jummy Okoya. These sessions are designed to create space for collective engagement with the central question of the event and will be guided by facilitators (details to be confirmed).
