NHL's Kim Davis: Overcoming Discrimination, Impact of Sponsors, and The Rooney Rule

Race at Work

English - March 23, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
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In this episode, Porter chats with Kim Davis, Senior Executive Vice President of Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs at the National Hockey League. They discuss the life-changing impact a sponsor made on Kim’s career and why the Rooney Rule - a policy started in 2003 by the NFL that requires teams to interview candidates of color for leadership roles - isn’t implemented in the NHL. Kim starts the show by recounting some of the overt racism she experienced early in her career.