“If I talk about it, I’m vocal about it and I’m active about it, I can change my own experience as well as theirs”: Gavin Lewis - Managing Director at BlackRock and Co-founder of #talkaboutblack
- Author
- Leila McKenzie-Delis/Gavin Lewis
- Published
- Tue 18 Aug 2020
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Gavin Lewis
Leila is joined by Gavin Lewis - Managing Director at BlackRock and Co-founder of #talkaboutblack .
IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT
· Gavin’s experience growing up as a young black male in a gentrified environment in the Tottenham area of London
· The ‘Talk About Black’ campaign which Gavin has been leading in order to address the relative rarity of people from an ethnic background within the investment industry, particularly at senior level
· The concern that people and organisations have already moved on from their Black Lives Matter activity and conversations around race/racism
· The ‘Race at Work’ charter, which has been designed to encourage signatories to adopt BAME recruitment/retention targets over the next 5 years
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