#379 Equity and Workforce Diversity with Nefertiri Sickout, Philadelphia, PA
GovLove - A Podcast About Local Government
English - January 01, 2021 11:00 - 51 minutes - 58.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 208 ratingsGovernment Business Careers cities government local management Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #378 The 2020 GovieLovies
Building an inclusive government. Nefertiri Sickout, the Acting Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer for the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, joined the podcast to talk about the work of advancing equity and improving the diversity of the City's workforce. She shared how the City has changed specific hiring practices and methods to improve the diversity of candidates and how the City is working to improve the diversity of businesses that participate in the procurement process. She also shared her career path into local government and how COVID-19 and the protests in 2020 impacted her work.
Host: Ben Kittelson