DEI Disrupters

Join us as we have a conversation about the intersection of dentistry and DEI with Dr. Sharon Harrell, Chief Diversity Officer at FirstHealth of the Carolinas.

Dr. Sharon Nicholson Harrell joined FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a comprehensive, not-for-profit healthcare network based in Pinehurst, North Carolina, in October 1998 as the inaugural director of dental care. Since then, FirstHealth Dental Care has provided comprehens...

Join us as we have a conversation about pivoting from speech-language pathology to DEI with Nia Darville Stokes-Hicks, Senior Manager, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Allyship at Greenhouse Software.

Nia Darville is an empathetic innovator at the intersection of employee experience and diversity, equity, and inclusion. A firm believer that DE&I solutions for companies should not be one-size-fits-all, she has deep experti...

Join us as we have a conversation about higher ed and making a change for the next generation with Dr. Lakeisha Thorpe - Exec Co-Director of Culture, Strategy, & Green Business Planning at Green America. Gain insights into how her experience of feeling othered pushed her into a career of diversity, equity, and inclusion!

Dr. LaKeisha Thorpe spent 16 years as a higher education administrator and instructor and has spent the...

Join us as we have a conversation about systems driven leadership in DEI with Sophia Khan, Chief People, Culture and Operations Officer at University of Minnesota Foundation.

Sophia Khan is a global business transformation executive with more than 25 years of experience driving significant organizational change. I create comprehensive business and people strategies to maximize innovative results. She was recognized by Twin Cit...

Join us as we have a conversation about DEI being in everything with Chantele Campbell - Chief Diversity Officer for The City of Buffalo NY. Gain insights into her amazing journey through DEI starting from before she realized that everything she did was a part of diversity, equity, and inclusion!

Chantele Campbell was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, a graduate of Canisius College and Regent University. She is a Certified Diver...

Join us as we have a conversation about DEI's role regardless of industry with Nicole Mitchell, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Cedars-Sinai. Gain insights from her story as a biracial, working mom navigating diversity equity and inclusion through industries!

Nicole Mitchell implements daily work-life sway as a working mother of two, a wife and an experienced DEI, community relations and corporate social respons...

Join us as we have a conversation about going from working as a CPA to leading the creation and deployment of Southwest's award-winning DEI strategy and pivoting into equity in beauty then water with Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Liji Thomas.

Liji began her career lobbying on Capitol Hill for an increase in housing for low-income women and children. In...

Join us as we have a conversation about moving from Dentistry to DEI with Palak Jalan - Chief Population Health Officer at AccessHealth Community Health Center. Gain insights into her amazing shift from being a dentist in India to a public health expert in the US!

Palak Jalan is the Chief Po Officer at AccessHealth Community Health Center located in Fort Bend and Waller Counties in the Greater Houston area. Palak holds a bache...

Join us as we have a conversation about not just recruiting diverse students but also supporting them once they come to our institutions with Cornell Craig, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Hofstra University. Gain insights into his perspectives on what diversity, equity, AND inclusion should look like in academia!

As the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO), Cornell Craig provides vision and leadership in prom...

Join us as we have a conversation about business, marketing, and DEI with SVP Chief Inclusion, Diversity and Talent Acquisition Officer at Best Buy, Amelia Hardy. Gain insights into her amazing shift from general business efforts to diversity equity and inclusion and how she's integrated the two!

Amelia Hardy is the chief inclusion and diversity officer and senior vice president at Best Buy. In this role, she oversees the ...

Join us as we have a conversation about the intersection of race and recreation with National Recreation and Park Association's VP of Education & Chief Equity Officer, Dr. Autumn Saxton-Ross. Gain insights into parks and recreation diversity equity and inclusion efforts!

Autumn Saxton-Ross, PhD, developed a love of the outdoors first through her grandmother’s yard and then exploring city parks with her family in her ho...

Dr. Herbert utilizes her unique background and extensive experience of being a physician and a healthcare leader in hospital administration, public health, and the health insurance industry to bridge the gaps in healthcare. Through her coaching, consulting, workshops, and training, she helps physicians transition into effective leaders and provides support to organizations to enhance the patient experience, improve patient outcomes...

Vanessa Nazario was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Trenton, NJ. She has worked in the field of Community Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for over 27 years. In early 2021, she joined Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, FL as Director of DEI to create and lead the System’s inaugural diversity, health equity, and inclusion strategy and manage Language Interpretation Services. Vanessa, through her leadership, help...

Join us as we have a conversation about DEI and our children with Chief Equity Officer and Director , Texas Racial Equity Collaborative at Children At Risk, Sharon Watkins Jones. Gain insights into how Sharon and Children at Risk are addressing the equity needs of our children in the minority-majority state of Texas!

BORN AND RAISED IN WACO, TEXAS, SHARON WATKINS JONES ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN AND GAINED VALUABLE ...

Rudy is an executive coach, facilitator, educator, entrepreneur and thought leader with expertise in cultural diversity, business management and community development. For over two decades, Nickens has consulted, educated and trained hundreds of local, national and international organizations in workforce diversity, leadership development, cultural competence and conflict resolution. He specializes in efforts to eliminate the effec...

Kevin Frick is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. At Carey, Frick has taught microeconomic foundations for managerial decision-making, healthcare financing, and frameworks for analyzing healthcare markets. Frick studied health policy and administration as an undergraduate at Penn State, which he followed with graduate traini...

A Louisville, KY native, Dr. Mary E. Fleming, completed her undergraduate degree at Xavier University of Louisiana, medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Meharry Medical College.  Due to her interests in eradicating health inequities and improving healthcare for the underserved, she matriculated to Harvard Medical School as a Commonwealth Fellow in Minority Heal...

The DEI Disrupters podcast is a diversity, equity, and inclusion-centered podcast that brings together the most positively-disruptive voices in the DEI space and gives them the opportunity to tell their stories.

The podcast is hosted by Dr. Britney Scott, a physician, black belt in lean six sigma, DEI process improvement thought leader and enthusiast. She is also the founder of The Clinic Doctor consulting practice where they creat...

The DEI Disrupters podcast is a diversity, equity, and inclusion-centered podcast that brings together the most positively-disruptive voices in the DEI space and gives them the opportunity to tell their stories.

This DEI Disrupters podcast is hosted by Dr. Britney Scott, a physician, black belt in lean six sigma, DEI process improvement thought leader and enthusiast. She is also the founder of The Clinic Doctor consulting prac...