Reamg Diversy wh Dr. Derrick Gay | MLA Conference | WETA

Contents:

• DERRICK GAY
• 7 AMAZG TED TALKS THAT CELEBRATE GAY PRI
• INTERVIEW WH DR. DERRICK GAY, INTERNATNAL CONSULTANT AND IFA PARIS LECTURER ON DIVERSY AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCY
• REAMG DIVERSY WH DR. DERRICK GAY | MLA CONFERENCE
• HOW I LEARNED IS OKAY TO BE GAY

DERRICK GAY

Derrick Gay, New York Tim. Derrick Gay is a Diversy and Incln Strategist who nsults wh anizatns, both domtilly and abroad, Over the past 23 years, he has partnered wh over 500 anizatns across numero sectors to epen D&I pacy; enhance cln and engagement; attract, hire, and reta the bt talent; and sign strategy to maximize bs and tn goals. Derrick Gay's TEDx talk explorg the challeng of the word "diversy.

7 AMAZG TED TALKS THAT CELEBRATE GAY PRI

Derrick Gay. Derrick Gay is an tor, lguist, mician and natnally-renown nsultant, wh 18 years workg schools as a teacher and senr admistrator. Gay serv as a rource to schools and other anizatns on issu of cultural petency, global perspective, diversy and cln.

Gay is a proud graduate of Oberl College, the Oberl Conservatory of Mic, and Columbia Universy. Derrick Gay joed EMA hosts Peter Baron and Hans Mundahl for an rmative talk on Episo 41 of The Enrollment Spectm Podst.

Gay's work, please vis his webse. Gay’s clients range om fancial servic to schools, orchtras and foundatns, to fashn and bs universi, both domtilly and abroad. Gay lectur MBA stunts at Columbia Bs School and the Internatnal Fashn Amy Paris.

INTERVIEW WH DR. DERRICK GAY, INTERNATNAL CONSULTANT AND IFA PARIS LECTURER ON DIVERSY AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCY

Gay has been featured the New York Tim, Washgton Post, Bs of Fashn, The Huffgton Post, El Tiempo Lato and on NPR, The Brian Lehrer Show, and 60 Mut. He is also a Forb Gay has also produced two TEDx Talks: "The Double-Edged Sword, " which explor the irony that the word diversy often unrm diversy goals; and "Why Elephants Hold the Key to Succs the 21st Century, " which explor the nature of racial disurse the Uned Stat.

Gay is a proud graduate of Whney Young Mag High School; Mer School of Mic; Oberl College, Oberl Conservatory of Mic, Columbia Universy, and The Universy of bs, Dr. Gay supports pani to cultivate anizatn-specific bs ratnal for engagg Diversy and Incln work ways that align D&I Strategy wh the overall Bs Strategy and Value Proposn.

Gay’s servic clu Inclive Learship trags and Executive Coachgs wh C-Sue and Directors; signg and supportg Diversy and Incln Strategy, cludg Communitn Strategy; liverg Town Halls and keynot; signg and facilatg Incln workshop for all employe; signg and executg Climate Asssments to measure the ways which employe perceive a sense of belongg; partnerg wh HR profsnals to ensure that practic and polici are clive; and evaluatg recg, terviewg and onboard procs. Gay’s work 23 years of experience and is ground scholarship, rearch, and data. Gay is an experienced rearcher and an Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI) Certified English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugue, Dr.

REAMG DIVERSY WH DR. DERRICK GAY | MLA CONFERENCE

Gay works around the world the languag, primarily the Uned Stat, France, Colombia, and Brazil. His approach wh global anizatns is rmed by havg traveled and lived around the world, which rms the sign of a meangful global strategy that ronat wh dienc beyond the Uned Gay has lived and worked Argenta, Belgium, Spa, France, Ireland, the Uned Kgdom, Portugal, Turkey, Atralia, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexi, Canada, Puerto Ri, the Domin Republic, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Swzerland, Atria, Italy, Jamai, Guadalupe, Lebanon, Uganda, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Indonia. Gay's life sce the age of 7.

Gay regards his current work as a ntuatn of the valu stilled him throughout his tn and often rporat mic to stunt programs  addn to moratg discsns between young ternatnal micians on the tersectn of mic and peace. Gay also matas an active operatic and orator reer. Yterday, we were thrilled to wele Derrick Gay, an ternatnally regnized nsultant on issu of diversy, cln, and global cizenship, to our office.

HOW I LEARNED IS OKAY TO BE GAY

LZ GranrsonThe myth of the gay agenda17 mut 34 sendsIn a funny talk wh an urgent msage, LZ Granrson pots out the absurdy the ia that there's a "gay liftyle, " much ls a "gay agenda. Wh fect joy, Tiq and Kim qutn our misnceptns about who they might be and offer a visn of an clive, challengg love that grows day by Tillett WrightFifty shas of gay18 mut 1 sendiO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?

Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight. Yoba RichenWhat the gay rights movement learned om the civil rights movement17 mut 28 sendsAs a member of both the Ain Amerin and LGBT muni, filmmaker Yoba Richen is fascated wh the overlaps and tensns between the gay rights and the civil rights movements.

Jok Church tells a short, movg story of the teacher who sheltered him as a young gay teen and helped him grow -- and how, many years later, he and his partner had the privilege of returng the favor.